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Yup, seeing the top 10 list made me immediately think of homework assignments.

In the real world, programmers don't take their questions with "recursion" or "pointers" very often. Nor is Assembly a common language for side projects.

This definitely seems like a case of students simply being relatively overrepresented on weekends.

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ASM (not necessarily x86), C and C++ are very well represented in side projects and hobbies because of the DIY device community, though.

Certainly, because it's what a lot of us learned in academia. Everyone's right!

The argument is that you would see a more specific tag like MIPS.

Suppose you have 10000 posts tagged with #MIPS #assembly, 8000 tagged with #x86 #assembly and 6000 tagged with #arm #assembly. Then you have 10000 tagged with #MIPS and 24000 tagged with #assembly.

Funny, when I saw the top 10, Edward Kmett came to my mind. He is likely the most prolific Haskell hacker, but he also recently started a side project writing some graphics shaders for VR in C (when he was younger, he was in the demoscene community).

So yeah, some people are weird that way..

I think focusing one one high level language like Haskell/OCaml/F# and one low level language like C is the truth path to enlightenment.

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