Re: Git User's Survey 2008 partial summary

From: H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date: Sep 3, 2008, 15:20 UTC
Message-ID: <20080903172050.61d510d6@pc09.procura.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20080903144552.GA27682@spearce.org>

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 07:45:52 -0700, "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

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> Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is partial summary of Git User's Survey 2008 [...]
> > 
> > 03. With which programming languages are you proficient?
> > 
> > Around 939 people answered this question.  C is most popular with 59%;
> > Ruby and surprisingly a bit shell script programming have around second
> > place, with about 52-53%.  More people are proficient with Python than 
> > in Perl by about 1/3-1/4.  Very few people (25 responses, around 3%)
> > feel proficient in Tcl/Tk, which means shallow pool of possible git-gui
> > and gitk contributors.

Rewrite them in perl or python and get more patches? The fact that it is not perl withheld me from finding solutions to problems I still have with the git-gui gitk combination

> > Java is quite popular with around 42%, which
> > gives hope in continued JGit/EGit development.

I would love to use git in Eclipse, but I tried again this week and found the following problems

1. egit web site does not give you any clue about installation or
   integration with eclipse or how that could be done at all
2. I found no suitable eclipse-egit package for OpenSUSE 10.3, and the
   packages I /did/ find depended on packages not available for SuSE
   10.3

> Yea, I liked seeing that result from our user base.  42% of the
> respondants know Java as a language.  Not all of them may like
> programming in it for fun, but at least they claim they know it.  :-)

I *hate* programming in Eclipse, but some java projects here require me to work with it. My preferred IDE is elvis (a vi clone)

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> In the IDE part Eclipse received 13% (124 responses), which is
> almost close to Emacs (20%, 193 responses).  Sadly only 2% (19
> responses) use EGit.  There's probably a lot of reasons for that.
> Possibly the "egit_sux" tag on repo.or.cz.  Or our lack of a stable
> update site that users can install reasonably stable versions from.

/me fiercely nods!

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