Top Software Trends Reports for 2023

There is simply zero value in TIOBE. At least use redmonk (https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2023/05/16/language-rankings-1-2... ), it is also not without fault, but it doesn’t have obvious bullshit like what you are mentioning (TIOBE once listed goddamn visual basic ahead of javascript.. completely braindead).

It's simply the standard "Power Law" distribution kicking in with wide error bars.

Note that #8 SQL is already under 1.5%. The error bars look like roughly 0.3%-0.4%. Given that, the ordering of everything below the top 10 has a very high random chance to it.

One big thing about scratch is many schools teach it, so while the programming might not be professional, I can tell you in some circles there is a lot of reading, both from parents and children, about scratch.

Unfortunately, I think that's a lot of the instances in this list - they're essentially just marketing blurbs masquerading as polls. Postman's report is like that (API thought leaders are the ones that use Postman the most!), but the Datadog, Hashicorp, and other reports are similar - the conclusions are basically "you need to use our product to be good", e.g. Hashicorp's conclusion "More cloud-mature companies improved their business outcomes with respect to speed, risk, and efficiency." (Oh, and by the way, being "cloud mature" means using tools like Terraform).

Not saying the polls are necessarily invalid, but there is soooo much attempted BS "submarine marketing" these days that I think it's important to always consider the motivations of the source.

There are a lot of shitty people that work for all the big companies (and many of the small ones). Google has 140,000 employees. I'm sure there are hundreds of assholes among that group.

Microsoft has 220,000 employees, so they probably employ even more assholes. Even the beloved Apple has plenty of shitty people and assholes working for it.

Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater. None of these companies are perfect, they are going to hire talented people that happen to be shitty individuals. It happens. That doesn't make it right, but its real life.

I'm all for judging a company on its merits. But lets judge it based on what they actually do or don't do. If they are doing stuff that's destroying the environment or they are encouraging slave labor or something then let's talk. But because one guy who was an acquihire is an asshole, it doesn't give me enough incentive to boycott a company.

Because _one_ person affiliated with DORA behaved badly we should dismiss their research findings? Does that still sound reasonable to you after being spelled out? I really detest this attitude.

If you're going to throw around accusations then bring receipts or don't bother. I'm not going to investigate some unnamed man nor do I care that an asshole was employed by DORA. Assholes are employed all over the place.