Of the ~52k responses:
- almost 33% of people have programmed professionally for less than 4 years
- just over 27% have programmed professionally between 5 and 9 years.
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I suspect junior developers care a lot more about Stack Overflow than more experienced developers. When I first started my career, I looked at SO at least daily. Now (10 years later), I look at it maybe monthly when I'm searching for a solution to a weird library/config issue.
If that hunch is correct, it would explain why the data are so skewed towards people with less than 5 years of professional experience.
30 years of coding experience here.(Professional + student) I only end up on Stack Overflow for cryptic regex stuff that I forgot and ffmpeg syntax.
In my case I am not sure if it's just more experience or search engine degradation of the past 15 years.
I used to search for solutions a lot more, nowadays, with the amount of content farming and spammy blog content, I feel a lot more averse to any search query at all.
The threshold is raised such that I really need to be stuck to go online and I will usually end up in vendor forums at some endpoint.