Developers – Page 2 – Lawrence Hecht

April 2, 2020February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

A Brief History of git in Numbers

Git surpassed “open source” search queries in March 2011.

May 30, 2019February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Low-Code Platform Adoption Gets a Boost from Digital Transformation

Twenty-eight percent of low-code platform users say escaping technical debt is a benefit. The theory is that low-code platforms generate less custom code that has to be reviewed at a later date.

July 7, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Asian Developers Are Underrepresented in the Data

GitHub and Stack Overflow do not represent a true picture of the world’s developers because not everyone uses these sites. Twenty-one percent of active GitHub users are in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and a 50,000+ person StackOverflow survey reported 22 percent of respondents coming from […]

August 19, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Girls Outperform, Boys Drool

Women are more successful at getting pull requests accepted than men on GitHub. That’s the conclusion reported in an academic paper, Gender Differences and Bias in Open Source: Pull Request Acceptance of Women Versus Men. By comparing GitHub email addresses with self-reported gender on Google+, researchers found […]

Trend in Application Programmers as % of IT Staff

May 13, 2016February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Enterprises Not Hiring to Make Everything Software-defined

Computer Economics indicates that application programmers make up the same percentage of the IT workforce as they did six years ago. In another chart, they also indicate that outsourcing of app dev has not risen. Thus, although software is becoming more important, it is likely companies […]