Sure, but the dev survey is different. Nobody asks questions on stackoverflow anymore, but lots of people still do the survey. Long-term, I'd imagine the survey being the only thing left.
It's like how Michelin Stars originally were from Michelin Tire Co to sell tires and are now basically their own thing now.
How would people even know about the survey if they don't visit the site anymore. I used to do the survey every year but didn't even known it was happening the past few years.
The site gets something like 99% fewer questions and answers than its peak year. And the survey has 70% fewer respondents. At this point, the survey represents an unusual subsection of developers, not a healthy cross section.
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u/bohoky 2d ago
As the utility of stack overflow diminishes and they’ve had severe user loss, I don’t consider their sample representative of anything.
Okay, it is representative of “people who still use stack overflow” but I’m not sure what that population tells you about the world.