The only questions left seem to be edge cases of interest to only a handful of developers.
The long tail. Hmmm...that very well may be the case for c#
, but I wouldn't know as they don't attract my attention.
I mention it because c#
is overwhelmingly the most popular language to ask question for on SO. (Why? Well, because Jeff Atwood is a prominent blogger and c# coder. It makes sense.) From my MSO question last month, c# is clearly dominant on SO. Is there a desire, need or whatever to diversify the user base and questions? my thinking is that other languages are, relatively, not so well represented on SO. Future growth of questions will increasingly need to come from other languages. To do so, this means SO will have diversify its user base.
http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time-small.png
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Update as per Greg's request: Each Language as a Percent of Total Questions.
Very interesting, as it seems that c#
is becoming even more dominant.
These graphs are really messy. I'm inclined to do them again but with only 3 to 5 series.
alt text http://lanai.dietpizza.ch/images/Stack-Overflow-Top-Ten-Languages-Over-Time-as-percentage-of-all-questions-small.png
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file. – sth Sep 6 '09 at 5:01