# The 2020 Julia language survey is live now

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-2020-julia-language-survey-is-live-now/41002>\
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**Created:** [June 8, 2020, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-2020-julia-language-survey-is-live-now/41002 "2020-06-08T16:28:37Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2020, 10:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/the-2020-julia-language-survey-is-live-now/41002/19 "2020-06-17T10:14:09Z")

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I found the survey to be extremely confusing to the point where I didn’t finish the questions nor submitted my response.

In particular I feel like the response alternatives are not fitting the questions. Here are some concrete points about some of the more confusing (to me) things:

- For Q1 (_“How frequently do you use each of the following languages?”_) I think it would be better with alteratives _“Daily”_, _“Weekly”_, _“Monthly”_, _“More seldom”_ instead of _“Great deal”_, _“Some”_ and _“None”_ which seems to be very much up for interpretation.

- For Q4 (_“Thinking only about the NON-TECHNICAL aspects or features of Julia, what are the aspects or features you like MOST about Julia?”_) the response alternative _“Learning a new language - I like learning new languages”_ should be _“Julia is a young language”_ or something instead. _“I like learning new language”_ is not a feature of Julia (although perhaps it is a feature of the person responding??).

- The response alternatives to Q5 (_“Thinking only about the TECHNICAL aspects or features of Julia, what are the aspects or features you like LEAST about Julia?”_) seems very “suggestive”. All of the alternatives feels like responses/comments you would get if you ask _“What do you dislike about Julia?”_ with a free-form response field instead of “features or aspects” that you can like/dislike. Just to comment on some examples from the response alternatives:

- For Q6 it is essentially the same as the previous points: most of the response alteratives are not “features or aspects” that you can like/dislike which makes it really hard to connect the response alternatives to the question. They all seem more like statements you can agree/disagree with instead of things you can like/dislike. For example: _“I don’t like learning a new language”_ doesn’t seem like a feature of the language, but more like a respons to _“Why are you not using Julia?”_.

- For the question pairs about things you like/dislike (Q3+Q5 and Q4+Q6) I think it would be much better to just have a _single list_ of (actual) “features and aspects” to be used in both of them. For example why can I like _“Speed and performance”_ but not dislike it? It seems very “guided” somehow as if _“Speed and performance”_ is an established truth that you can only agree with.

Hopefully this feedback is useful and the survey can be improved for next year and maybe I can answer then!

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