{"id":207998,"date":"2017-04-24T10:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=207998"},"modified":"2017-04-24T10:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T08:30:56","slug":"which-programmers-work-late-at-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/207998-which-programmers-work-late-at-night.html","title":{"rendered":"Which programmers work late at night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stackoverflow.blog\/2017\/04\/19\/programming-languages-used-late-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>An article<\/strong><\/a> by data scientist David Robinson on Stack Overflow has provided insight into which programming languages receive queries during certain times of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Robinson examined\u00a0Stack Overflow visits by hour across four weeks in August 2016, looking at the 250 tags with the most questions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For each, we approximated the time zone based on the IP address and calculated the local time,&#8221; he said. He then removed data from Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, to get accurate &#8220;work&#8221; times.<\/p>\n<p>His findings included the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>C# programmers start and stop their day earlier, and tend to use the language less in the evenings.<\/li>\n<li>C programmers start the day a bit later, keep using the language in the evening, and stay up the longest.<\/li>\n<li>Python and JavaScript developers start and end the day a little later than C# users, and are a little less likely than C programmers to work in the evening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Robinson also provided an overview of which languages are visited the most and least on Stack Overflow during a &#8220;9 to 5&#8221; workday &#8211; as shown in the graphic below.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Programming.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-208030\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Programming.jpg\" alt=\"Programming\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Programming.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Programming-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Programming-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Programming-430x430.jpg 430w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Programming-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/207892-let-whatsapp-read-out-your-messages-on-iphone.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Let WhatsApp read out your messages on iPhone<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article by data scientist David Robinson has provided insight into which programming languages receive queries during certain times of the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[29684],"class_list":["post-207998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-stack-overflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208032,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207998\/revisions\/208032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}