How not to survey developers and repositories
Leo A. Meyerovich, Ariel S. Rabkin · 2012
We present cross-sectional analyses of programming language use and reflect upon our experience in doing so. In particular, we directly analyze groups of 1,500-13,000 developers by using questionnaires and 260,000 developers indirectly so by mining 210,000 software repositories. Our analysis reveals programming language adoption phenomena surrounding developer age, birth year, workplace, and software repository preference.