         +90% users in the past 3.5 years

huh? That is incredible growth. How is it even measured?

▲ aw1621107 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Herb's blog post links to the SlashData Developer Nation Survey, so presumably that's what the claim is based on. The company has a methodology page here [1], and it looks like the Developer Nation panel [2] is one of the sources used by that company.

[0]: https://www.slashdata.co/research/developer-population

[1]: https://www.slashdata.co/company/methodology

[2]: https://developernation.net/

	▲	fg137 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Has anyone heard of any of these companies before? And I wonder what the number is for other languages. They want my email just to look at their "free report". Sorry that's not good to happen.

▲ wscott 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can hear the engineer in that second question. They hear a wild statistic pulled out of someone's ass and ask what is that sticking to the side?