Re: Git User's Survey 2007 partial summary

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Aug 27, 2007, 05:45 UTC
Message-ID: <85tzqla5tn.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <200708270251.05762.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> This is partail summary of Git User's Survey 2007 after 1 week of 
> running. It is based on "View Text Results" page:
>   http://www.survey.net.nz/members.php?page=results&qn=1304
>
> We have around 445 individual responses, as compared to (I think) 115 
> answers (Base = 115) for previous survey. That is quite a bit.
>
>
> 04. Which programming languages are you proficient with?
>
> It losk like there is only 3/4 people proficient in Perl as compared
> to Python; it looks like Python is more popular. C is most popular,
> with only a few (if everything is all right with the results page)
> people proficient in Tcl/Tk. I'm sorry, git-gui and gitk guys; it
> looks like not many developers...

If the few developers are efficient and responsive due to their choice of programming language, the net result might still work out fine. But it might make the the project more susceptible to discontinuation if existing developers can't sustain their involvement for some reason. On the other hand, code being inscrutable because of not being expressible well in a more common language also carries its dangers.

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> 26. Which porcelains do you use?
>
> Most people use core-git, some use cogito (the fact that it was
> lately deprecated and is no longer developed notwithstanding), some
> use StGIT, 3 even use pg (despite it is unmaintained). More people
> use StGIT than Guilt, but this can be cause by the fact that Guilt
> (formerly gq) is younger.

I found guilt essentially unusable for me due to its documentation. There is only man-page level documentation for the various commands comprising it, but the overall design is just "this is just like patch sets in ..." uh, Monotone? Don't remember which it was. Anyway, the docs were quite useless to me as someone who did _not_ previously use the system mentioned as reference.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum