> There is a lot of weak-ass criticism going on in this thread when the data -- whatever about its methodology is troubling -- seems to almost perfectly back up what is the common experience among programmers.
So?
I mean, really, I can come up with completely bogus metrics all day, and whenever one produces results in a domain that happen to align with CW in that domain post a infographic using it, but that doesn't make that metric meaningful.
> The final conclusions in favor of CoffeeScript, Clojure, and Python are pretty obvious, I would think.</blockquote>
So? A metric that has no intrinsic validity doesn't become valuable just because it produces conclusions which match what you would have assumed to be true (whether based on valid logic or not) before encountering the metric.
So?
I mean, really, I can come up with completely bogus metrics all day, and whenever one produces results in a domain that happen to align with CW in that domain post a infographic using it, but that doesn't make that metric meaningful.
> The final conclusions in favor of CoffeeScript, Clojure, and Python are pretty obvious, I would think.</blockquote>
So? A metric that has no intrinsic validity doesn't become valuable just because it produces conclusions which match what you would have assumed to be true (whether based on valid logic or not) before encountering the metric.