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keyle • today at 7:42 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

         +90% users in the past 3.5 years
huh? That is incredible growth. How is it even measured?

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wscott • today at 9:54 AM

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?

aw1621107 • today at 8:20 AM

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/