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by hjalle 3751 days ago
Finding it a little suprising that C# is still decreasing in popularity, despite Microsofts recent efforts:

2013 - 44.7%

2014 - 37.6%

2015 - 31.6%

2016 - 30.9%
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phhlho 3751 days ago
I wonder if it's actually decreasing in popularity or StackOverflow is just becoming increasingly popular with other languages.

Looking at the number of responses to that question, there are lots more people taking the survey in the last two years!

2013 - 8042

2014 - 6537

2015 - 21982

2016 - 49397

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icefox 3751 days ago
There is probably a correlation to the slow rise of the mac platform and the slow fall of the OS X platform.

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...

There are a ton of developers that will choose whatever language they have available and if developers are switching to mac they wont be reaching for C#. Then you have those that have moved on to F#. Objective-C has the same problem for those that have moved to swift. It is weird to think that next year perhaps 1/3 of SO developers will be on OS X. That is such a huge amount.

And in the last decade Linux has absolutely won the server market. It is going to take some time for the clr on Linux project to stop the bleed from projects that moved off c# just to move off of Windows servers.

Link to the full answers about tech from parent: http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016#tech...

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jinst8gmi 3751 days ago
Perhaps Microsoft's reasons for their "recent efforts" are becoming more obvious to you...
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dhogan 3751 days ago
Well. It didn't decrease as much. Perhaps it's just taking a moment to reverse the momentum.
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