feat: Add the 2026 Debugging survey report - #407
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Thank you very much for working on this! I left a few comments.
It's a good start definitely, and I know that it takes a lot of time to go through the questions and prepare the charts. As a follow-up, I think we can add a few more charts, maybe even some cross-correlated charts, as suggested, and then of course write a blog post. Are you up for it? :)
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| debugger_used_for = "What are you using debuggers for?" | ||
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Would be nice to show a chart of this separated by the used tool(s). E.g. GDB, ...
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I added two charts for this in 8257fd5. Let me know what you think?
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| # multiple. I want to better represent information such as: | ||
| # - Of all responses, X% of users use the specific combo "Debugger" + "OS" | ||
| # - Of all responses for "Debugger", X% of users did so on "OS" | ||
| # - Of all responses for "Debugger", X% of users selected more than one "OS" | ||
| # - Of all responses for "OS", X% of users used "Debugger" | ||
| # - Of all responses for "OS", X% of users selected more than one "Debugger" |
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Possibly all these answers can be better explained in the blog post. These charts are slightly unwieldly and not very flexible for nuances. I am not sure but I would probably not think too much about the graph representation here.
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| visualizer_attribute_known = "If you are a library author, are you aware of and using the debugger visualizer attribute?" |
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The replies about the debugger visualizer are interesting, many don't know this tool (me included!); it could be useful to explain that in the blog post
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Nice work, thanks @hashcatHitman, I see a couple of interesting findings. One additional general observation after looking at the PDF: I feel that these wordclouds don't add a great deal of meaningful info. But if you find them interesting, it's fine to leave them there. |
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I'm honestly not sure if these reveal anything interesting, but I'm glad to have figured out how to make them. Signed-off-by: hashcatHitman <155700084+hashcatHitman@users.noreply.github.com>
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We can handle answers ending in periods now, so patching the dataframe directly isn't needed for this anymore. Signed-off-by: hashcatHitman <155700084+hashcatHitman@users.noreply.github.com>
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If we decide to use the Thanks a lot for polishing the charts! I think that we have interesting data there, and it's time to move on to the blog post. Feel free to chat with me on Zulip to discuss it :) I think that it might be nice to structure it in a similar way as the previous similar survey that we did about compiler performance, where we split the conversation into several subtopics that were indexed at the top of the post. |
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This is a first draft. I think it's pretty good so far, but there are questions that need answering still. Please see the comments starting with
TODO:.