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I’ve been programming for 15+ years and I’m not particularly surprised about Java and C# being at the top of this list. I can’t say this for sure without more data but anecdotally from my experience I’d note some observations: 1) Java and C# developers typically follow generally accepted standards and best practices - they know how to build maintainable enterprise software in ways that make it easy to change (this may also be what leads to larger PRs as simplicity sometimes requires a bit more ceremony) 2) there is a very rich and mature set of tooling 3) the libraries available to these languages tend to be written in such a way that their concerns don’t bleed into your codebase unnecessarily (I’m a fan of Python, but if you’ve ever used something like flask-sqlalchemy you probably understand this well - you shouldn’t be able to start a db transaction from anywhere in your code)

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I’ve been programming for 15+ years and I’m not particularly surprised about Java and C# being at the top of this list. I can’t say this for sure without more data but anecdotally from my experience I’d note some observations: 1) Java and C# developers typically follow generally accepted standards and best practices - they know how to build maintainable enterprise software in ways that make it easy to change (this may also be what leads to larger PRs as simplicity sometimes requires a bit more ceremony) 2) there is a very rich and mature set of tooling 3) the libraries available to these languages tend to be written in such a way that their concerns don’t bleed into your codebase unnecessarily (I’m a fan of Python, but if you’ve ever used something like flask-sqlalchemy you probably understand this well - you shouldn’t be able to start a db transaction from anywhere in your code)

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