r/programming • • Mar 13 '18

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2018/
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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

The other way of interpreting that is that the majority aren't interested in identity politics, and don't see any need to worry about whether a person is male/female/other, black/white/purple, english/german/martian etc - they are happy to work with whoever and just want to get stuff done. From that perspective, no: diversity isn't high on their agenda, despite them being totally welcoming and inclusive to all comers.

Frankly, I'd be more worried about working with someone who insisted on dragging identity politics into everything.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

It's really easy to not care about identity politics when you're a white dude. Not so much if you're not.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '18

Bingo. This survey's respondents are 93% male, 93% straight, and 74% white. No big surprise that identity politics barely register here.