2017 Community survey planning #28

skade · May 11, 2016

This is a tracking issue for everything that we failed at during the 2016 essay and should make better in 2017. Automatically self-destructs on May 15th, 2017.

Some useful commentary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4ikawg/launching_the_2016_state_of_rust_survey/

aturon · May 11, 2016

Some useful commentary here: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4ikawg/launching_the_2016_state_of_rust_survey/

I had a comment from someone that the survey came across as too professional-programmer focused and that it shouldn't assume you do programming for your day job.

vladimir-lu · May 18, 2016

I had a comment from someone that the survey came across as too professional-programmer focused and that it shouldn't assume you do programming for your day job.

we forgot to ask if we could contact people with offers in the survey (e.g. send them emails about a conference location if they selected a conference place where we actually run a conference, or if multiple people selected the same location and "interested in a meetup" if we could get them in contact with each other)

carols10cents · May 18, 2016

we forgot to ask if we could contact people with offers in the survey (e.g. send them emails about a conference location if they selected a conference place where we actually run a conference, or if multiple people selected the same location and "interested in a meetup" if we could get them in contact with each other)

How many miles would you be willing to travel for a conference?

erickt · Jun 16, 2016

How many miles would you be willing to travel for a conference?

Next survey should include a direct "want to sign up for our newsletter?".

skade · Jun 23, 2016

Next survey should include a direct "want to sign up for our newsletter?".

I think the 'crash report' question was too easy to misunderstand.
We should break up "No" and "Stopped using Rust" into two separate answers.
We should go through the demographics and add any missing demographics.
We need to another pass around describing the demographics. Here's a relevant quote:

I wonder, are black people living and working in Africa under-represented? What should they answer in your survey? This question in survey looks somewhat US-centric. Even the term "person of color" is a US-term and can be hard for people in other countries to understand. I don't completely understand it, e.g. does it include Asians or not.

erickt · Jun 30, 2016

I think the 'crash report' question was too easy to misunderstand.
We should break up "No" and "Stopped using Rust" into two separate answers.
We should go through the demographics and add any missing demographics.
We need to another pass around describing the demographics. Here's a relevant quote:

I wonder, are black people living and working in Africa under-represented? What should they answer in your survey? This question in survey looks somewhat US-centric. Even the term "person of color" is a US-term and can be hard for people in other countries to understand. I don't completely understand it, e.g. does it include Asians or not.

On a similar note from another comment:

"'Talking with my Korean friends here in Korea, I found that they didn't
check "person of color" checkbox because they had no idea what that is.
Typical response: "does it mean person with colorful personality?" Just for
your information.'"

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I think the 'crash report' question was too easy to misunderstand.

We should break up "No" and "Stopped using Rust" into two separate
answers.

We should go through the demographics and add any missing
demographics.

We need to another pass around describing the demographics. Here's a
relevant quote
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4ikawg/launching_the_2016_state_of_rust_survey/d2yyb41
:

I wonder, are black people living and working in Africa under-represented?
What should they answer in your survey? This question in survey looks
somewhat US-centric. Even the term "person of color" is a US-term and can
be hard for people in other countries to understand. I don't completely
understand it, e.g. does it include Asians or not.

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jonathandturner · Jun 30, 2016

On a similar note from another comment:

"'Talking with my Korean friends here in Korea, I found that they didn't
check "person of color" checkbox because they had no idea what that is.
Typical response: "does it mean person with colorful personality?" Just for
your information.'"

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wrote:

I think the 'crash report' question was too easy to misunderstand.

We should break up "No" and "Stopped using Rust" into two separate
answers.

We should go through the demographics and add any missing
demographics.

We need to another pass around describing the demographics. Here's a
relevant quote
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/4ikawg/launching_the_2016_state_of_rust_survey/d2yyb41
:

I wonder, are black people living and working in Africa under-represented?
What should they answer in your survey? This question in survey looks
somewhat US-centric. Even the term "person of color" is a US-term and can
be hard for people in other countries to understand. I don't completely
understand it, e.g. does it include Asians or not.

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From HN:

Why not simply ask the question directly? "Do you feel welcome in the Rust community?"
For those that respond "no, I don't feel welcome", it might be interesting to also ask why, and to see if that correlates with demographics.

erickt · Jun 30, 2016

From HN:

Why not simply ask the question directly? "Do you feel welcome in the Rust community?"
For those that respond "no, I don't feel welcome", it might be interesting to also ask why, and to see if that correlates with demographics.

Some lobste.rs feedback

steveklabnik · Jun 30, 2016

Some lobste.rs feedback

Ask explicitly:

Would you like to be contacted about conferences whose location you have expressed interest in
Would you like to be put in touch with others in your area interested in meetups

carols10cents · Jul 27, 2016

Ask explicitly:

Would you like to be contacted about conferences whose location you have expressed interest in
Would you like to be put in touch with others in your area interested in meetups

Would be good to circulate the survey for feedback (particularly to the sub-teams) before sending it out - I would have loved to tweak some of the questions but didn't see the survey was out.

nrc · Sep 1, 2016

Would be good to circulate the survey for feedback (particularly to the sub-teams) before sending it out - I would have loved to tweak some of the questions but didn't see the survey was out.

#79

carols10cents · Sep 20, 2016

#79

I would prefer if we used another service next year, http://typeform.com was really great and produces better output AFAIK. Also, it handles notifying respondents, etc.

If we want to go into the habit of having more surveys, we could also take one of the paid plans.

skade · Sep 20, 2016

I would prefer if we used another service next year, http://typeform.com was really great and produces better output AFAIK. Also, it handles notifying respondents, etc.

If we want to go into the habit of having more surveys, we could also take one of the paid plans.

Assuming rust-lang/rfcs#1824 is accepted and implemented by then, I would like to add a question or questions about whether the information crates.io provides is useful for evaluating crates.

carols10cents · Feb 17, 2017

Assuming rust-lang/rfcs#1824 is accepted and implemented by then, I would like to add a question or questions about whether the information crates.io provides is useful for evaluating crates.

Here's the results of the Go survey https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results

steveklabnik · Mar 6, 2017

Here's the results of the Go survey https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results

Would you consider adding "What do you like most about Rust?" to the next survey, using numerical ranking so as to avoid having to choose only 1 value

Dowwie · Mar 6, 2017

Would you consider adding "What do you like most about Rust?" to the next survey, using numerical ranking so as to avoid having to choose only 1 value

We should consider putting out the survey in multiple languages, in case there are communities that don't speak english.

erickt · Apr 19, 2017

We should consider putting out the survey in multiple languages, in case there are communities that don't speak english.

From the IRC conversation - we should have the data gathering script ready before we go live.

Also, we should separate out the free form, so they don't get mixed in with the drop-down results.

jonathandturner · Apr 19, 2017

From the IRC conversation - we should have the data gathering script ready before we go live.

Also, we should separate out the free form, so they don't get mixed in with the drop-down results.

"How would you prefer to install Rust?" is a little odd. We should change this to ask "Would you prefer to install Rust through a different mechanism?". Maybe make it a long form questions.
How about we rephrase "After 1.0, has upgrading to a new version of the Stable Rust compiler broken your code?" into "has upgrading to a new stable version of Rust in the last year broken your code?"
We should ask how people like rustup.rs
We should ask about rls
Are there any other editors we should add to the editor list?
Should we ask about OS versions? cc @brson / @alexcrichton
Is there more that we could ask to people who don't use rust at work. How about asking:
- What could we do to make rust more acceptable at your company?
- How many in your company would you say would be interested in using rust?
How can we make this less biased towards programmers? Are there non-programmer roles was could add to the job descriptions?

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

"How would you prefer to install Rust?" is a little odd. We should change this to ask "Would you prefer to install Rust through a different mechanism?". Maybe make it a long form questions.
How about we rephrase "After 1.0, has upgrading to a new version of the Stable Rust compiler broken your code?" into "has upgrading to a new stable version of Rust in the last year broken your code?"
We should ask how people like rustup.rs
We should ask about rls
Are there any other editors we should add to the editor list?
Should we ask about OS versions? cc @brson / @alexcrichton
Is there more that we could ask to people who don't use rust at work. How about asking:
- What could we do to make rust more acceptable at your company?
- How many in your company would you say would be interested in using rust?
How can we make this less biased towards programmers? Are there non-programmer roles was could add to the job descriptions?

on "What domain(s) do you work in currently?"
- change title to "What industries(s) do you work in currently?"?
- we should change "servers" to something else?
Add "what programming languages does your company use"?
We should add more programming languages
"How would you rate your Rust expertise?" may be redundant with the "How long have you been working with Rust?" question
For "Are you part of an underrepresented demographic in technology?" we should add a section about economic challenges, which came up in 2016.
We should ask permission if we can refer them to a local meetup. We could have a separate survey that collects emails for particular regions so we can decouple the answers to the survey to just being contacted for meetup/conference.
I saw other surveys ask a CAPTCHA. should we do that?
"To which of these cities would you travel to attend a Rust conference?" needs some work now that we got I think 5 large events happening this year.

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

on "What domain(s) do you work in currently?"
- change title to "What industries(s) do you work in currently?"?
- we should change "servers" to something else?
Add "what programming languages does your company use"?
We should add more programming languages
"How would you rate your Rust expertise?" may be redundant with the "How long have you been working with Rust?" question
For "Are you part of an underrepresented demographic in technology?" we should add a section about economic challenges, which came up in 2016.
We should ask permission if we can refer them to a local meetup. We could have a separate survey that collects emails for particular regions so we can decouple the answers to the survey to just being contacted for meetup/conference.
I saw other surveys ask a CAPTCHA. should we do that?
"To which of these cities would you travel to attend a Rust conference?" needs some work now that we got I think 5 large events happening this year.

"How long did you stop using Rust before you stopped?" doesn't make sense to me, I think instead this should say "How long did you [try using|use] Rust before you stopped?"
"Approximately how large are all the Rust projects you work on?" Are we looking for the sum total or the average of all the rust projects someone works on? It's not clear to me, we should either say "Approximately how many lines would the sum of all the Rust projects you work on be?" or "Approximately, what is the average number of lines of all the Rust projects you work on?" depending on what we're looking for

carols10cents · Apr 26, 2017

"How long did you stop using Rust before you stopped?" doesn't make sense to me, I think instead this should say "How long did you [try using|use] Rust before you stopped?"
"Approximately how large are all the Rust projects you work on?" Are we looking for the sum total or the average of all the rust projects someone works on? It's not clear to me, we should either say "Approximately how many lines would the sum of all the Rust projects you work on be?" or "Approximately, what is the average number of lines of all the Rust projects you work on?" depending on what we're looking for

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

ember https://emberjs.com/ember-community-survey-2017/

carols10cents · Apr 26, 2017

ember https://emberjs.com/ember-community-survey-2017/

bstrie> erickt Manishearth: I'd rather be very explicit and say "has upgrading to a new version of the stable rust compiler (not upgrading library dependencies) broken your code in the past year?"
12:29 PM <~erickt> even better
12:29 PM <@Manishearth> bstrie: yes
12:29 PM and then move the library dependencies question right after that and make dependencies bold
12:30 PM <@Manishearth> erickt: we had issues with folks thinking a broken clippy was breaking changes too
12:30 PM <@Manishearth> yes
12:30 PM <@Manishearth> yall are great

carols10cents · Apr 26, 2017

bstrie> erickt Manishearth: I'd rather be very explicit and say "has upgrading to a new version of the stable rust compiler (not upgrading library dependencies) broken your code in the past year?"
12:29 PM <~erickt> even better
12:29 PM <@Manishearth> bstrie: yes
12:29 PM and then move the library dependencies question right after that and make dependencies bold
12:30 PM <@Manishearth> erickt: we had issues with folks thinking a broken clippy was breaking changes too
12:30 PM <@Manishearth> yes
12:30 PM <@Manishearth> yall are great

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

Questions derived from the nim survey:

How did you find out about Rust?
Most appealing, most displeasing aspects of Rust
What learning resources did you use to learn Rust
If you read the book, how far did you get? did you enjoy it?

From elixir:

We should add questions on testing, underhandedness, etc
Employment status?
- Employed full time by a company
- freelancer
- run my own business developing software for clients
- build my own apps exclusively
- unemployed
- student

Should we split the language question into "what programming languages do you use at work?", "what programming languages do you use in your free time?"

From elixir:

How do you deploy your rust code? Kubernetes/AWS/etc

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

Questions derived from the nim survey:

How did you find out about Rust?
Most appealing, most displeasing aspects of Rust
What learning resources did you use to learn Rust
If you read the book, how far did you get? did you enjoy it?

From elixir:

We should add questions on testing, underhandedness, etc
Employment status?
- Employed full time by a company
- freelancer
- run my own business developing software for clients
- build my own apps exclusively
- unemployed
- student

Should we split the language question into "what programming languages do you use at work?", "what programming languages do you use in your free time?"

From elixir:

How do you deploy your rust code? Kubernetes/AWS/etc

From clojure:

What has most frustrating aspect to using rust?
- Hiring / staffing
- Docs
- Long term viability
- portability
- finding libraries
Deployment options: AWS lambda, containers, ECS, App store

From pycharm:

What frameworks are you using? Diesel, Rocket, Iron, etc.
Do you use debugging tools, profiling, code coverage, etc? Often/time to time/never.

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

From clojure:

What has most frustrating aspect to using rust?
- Hiring / staffing
- Docs
- Long term viability
- portability
- finding libraries
Deployment options: AWS lambda, containers, ECS, App store

From pycharm:

What frameworks are you using? Diesel, Rocket, Iron, etc.
Do you use debugging tools, profiling, code coverage, etc? Often/time to time/never.

From ember:

Is your company planning on hiring Rust developers? If so, what's the timescale?
What would be required in order for your company to hire Rust developers?
Did you change jobs to join a company to work with Rust?
If your company is using Rust, do people feel like they are working faster or slower? Are they happy or not happy?
How old are your Rust applications?
Which region do you live? North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, South America, Africa, Central America

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

From ember:

Is your company planning on hiring Rust developers? If so, what's the timescale?
What would be required in order for your company to hire Rust developers?
Did you change jobs to join a company to work with Rust?
If your company is using Rust, do people feel like they are working faster or slower? Are they happy or not happy?
How old are your Rust applications?
Which region do you live? North America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, South America, Africa, Central America

Perhaps a question on how hard/easy it is for job-seekers to find rust jobs in their location?

Manishearth · Apr 26, 2017

Perhaps a question on how hard/easy it is for job-seekers to find rust jobs in their location?

For underrepresented in tech, how about something like "English is not my primary language"?
We should get the survey translated if possible.

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

For underrepresented in tech, how about something like "English is not my primary language"?
We should get the survey translated if possible.

From go's survey:

How satisfied are you with Rust support in your preferred editor?
What one addition would make the biggest improvement in your preferred editor?
My team deploys Rust/non-Rust programs to: ...
Where do you go to get your Rust answers from? ...
Where do you get your Rust news from? ...
I have attended:
- a Rust Meetup
- a Rust conference
- Rust training
- technical conference for Rust content
- RustBridge event
- Rust remote meetup
where could the Rust community be more welcoming?
for underrepresented in tech
- I object to the question

erickt · Apr 26, 2017

From go's survey:

How satisfied are you with Rust support in your preferred editor?
What one addition would make the biggest improvement in your preferred editor?
My team deploys Rust/non-Rust programs to: ...
Where do you go to get your Rust answers from? ...
Where do you get your Rust news from? ...
I have attended:
- a Rust Meetup
- a Rust conference
- Rust training
- technical conference for Rust content
- RustBridge event
- Rust remote meetup
where could the Rust community be more welcoming?
for underrepresented in tech
- I object to the question

Hi! I'd like to volunteer to translate the survey to Spanish.

A few notes I left on IRC:

Geographical division in America will be more meaningful if we use USA/CA and Latin America instead of North, Central and South America.
What will be the criteria to define the options available in the frameworks question in case it's not an open field?
I believe that non-English speakers is definitely a good option to have in the underrepresented groups question.
I'd leave an open field with limited length for the most frustrating part of Rust question.

sebasmagri · Apr 26, 2017

Hi! I'd like to volunteer to translate the survey to Spanish.

A few notes I left on IRC:

Geographical division in America will be more meaningful if we use USA/CA and Latin America instead of North, Central and South America.
What will be the criteria to define the options available in the frameworks question in case it's not an open field?
I believe that non-English speakers is definitely a good option to have in the underrepresented groups question.
I'd leave an open field with limited length for the most frustrating part of Rust question.

I believe that non-English speakers is definitely a good option to have in the underrepresented groups question.

What does "non-English speaker" mean in this context? Someone who doesn't speak the language, someone who can speak a bit but not communicate, someone who can communicate but isn't fluent, or someone who is fluent but better with a different language?

I suspect you mean "cannot communicate in English" here; if so, we should be explicit on that

Geographical division in America will be more meaningful if we use USA/CA and Latin America instead of North, Central and South America.

Could you expand on what

Manishearth · Apr 26, 2017

I believe that non-English speakers is definitely a good option to have in the underrepresented groups question.

What does "non-English speaker" mean in this context? Someone who doesn't speak the language, someone who can speak a bit but not communicate, someone who can communicate but isn't fluent, or someone who is fluent but better with a different language?

I suspect you mean "cannot communicate in English" here; if so, we should be explicit on that

Geographical division in America will be more meaningful if we use USA/CA and Latin America instead of North, Central and South America.

Could you expand on what

@Manishearth I believe there are two main things why people need English for; documentation and community support (IRC, SO, Reddit, etc). So we could probably be more explicit on this and focus on those two options in two separate questions out of the underrepresented groups section.

Regarding the geographical division in America, there is a huge difference between Mexico and US/CA for example, but there is not much difference between Mexico and Argentina or any other Latin America Country OTOH. So by grouping North America as in Mexico+US+Canada we might be loosing the ability to classify Mexico correctly, and doing US/CA, Mexico, Central America and South America looks like too much divisions across an area that is actually pretty much the same in the industry.

sebasmagri · Apr 26, 2017

@Manishearth I believe there are two main things why people need English for; documentation and community support (IRC, SO, Reddit, etc). So we could probably be more explicit on this and focus on those two options in two separate questions out of the underrepresented groups section.

Regarding the geographical division in America, there is a huge difference between Mexico and US/CA for example, but there is not much difference between Mexico and Argentina or any other Latin America Country OTOH. So by grouping North America as in Mexico+US+Canada we might be loosing the ability to classify Mexico correctly, and doing US/CA, Mexico, Central America and South America looks like too much divisions across an area that is actually pretty much the same in the industry.

Ah, fair.

Manishearth · Apr 26, 2017

Ah, fair.

Some kneejerk feedback as I read through.

Never used Rust

I'm not sure "I'm comfortable with my current language(s)" is so useful. OTOH, we're missing an option for "Rust doesn't solve a problem for me".
Here are my suggested options, to try to make this more crisp (with a request that the respondent leave a comment explaining in more detail for any selection):
- Rust doesn't solve a problem for me
- Rust is too hard to learn
- Rust doesn't have the libraries I need
- Rust doesn't have the tools I need
- Rust doesn't support the platforms I need
- Rust seems too risky to use in production
- Rust isn't permitted by my company

Rust compiler and Tools

The "Do you have any other details you want to provide" question got random answers last time; let's make it more specific. "Please provide details about what broke and what was needed to fix it"
"If you have used Cargo, do you like it" -- what is this question trying to achieve? We know people like Cargo. Feels like an odd thing to ask.

Rust Ecosystem Projects

This section is somewhat oddly named. It seems mostly focused on platform and platform tooling questions, but at the end randomly jumps to talking about dependencies.
The "do you have any other details" question has the same problem mentioned above.
The "Has a minor dependency upgrade broken your code" should probably be reworded to make clear that you mean a semver minor version bump.

Using Rust at work

We probably want more gradations at the small count: 1, 2-5, 6-10 or something, given that higher numbers will be much less common

And that's it! Everything else looks fantastic to me.

aturon · Apr 27, 2017

Some kneejerk feedback as I read through.

Never used Rust

I'm not sure "I'm comfortable with my current language(s)" is so useful. OTOH, we're missing an option for "Rust doesn't solve a problem for me".
Here are my suggested options, to try to make this more crisp (with a request that the respondent leave a comment explaining in more detail for any selection):
- Rust doesn't solve a problem for me
- Rust is too hard to learn
- Rust doesn't have the libraries I need
- Rust doesn't have the tools I need
- Rust doesn't support the platforms I need
- Rust seems too risky to use in production
- Rust isn't permitted by my company

Rust compiler and Tools

The "Do you have any other details you want to provide" question got random answers last time; let's make it more specific. "Please provide details about what broke and what was needed to fix it"
"If you have used Cargo, do you like it" -- what is this question trying to achieve? We know people like Cargo. Feels like an odd thing to ask.

Rust Ecosystem Projects

This section is somewhat oddly named. It seems mostly focused on platform and platform tooling questions, but at the end randomly jumps to talking about dependencies.
The "do you have any other details" question has the same problem mentioned above.
The "Has a minor dependency upgrade broken your code" should probably be reworded to make clear that you mean a semver minor version bump.

Using Rust at work

We probably want more gradations at the small count: 1, 2-5, 6-10 or something, given that higher numbers will be much less common

And that's it! Everything else looks fantastic to me.

Kneejerk feedback:

"My company doesn't let me use Rust" - I'd rather have something like "My company doesn't use Rust": it feels less oppositional.

"What operating system do you compile for and run your Rust projects on?" - this list should probably ordered in some way by popularity, alphabetic ordering feels wrong here.

Again for the cross-compile bit.

"Which titles do you believe best match your role?" - this has a weird, kind of alphabetical but kind of not ordering? Also, it'd be nice to have a "hobbyist" option.

"What language are you fluent in?" should be "languages". Also, if this is going to be an exclusively english survey, this seems weird to ask; I'd have to assume they're at least fluent in english, or else they'd not take the survey.

"To which of these regions would you travel to attend a Rust conference?" - This seems weirdly split up, having multiple areas for a single small continent (Europe - East vs West), versus North America, which is one place; might be better to split it up into four corners? Similarly with Africa, Africa is giant and someone who's willing to travel to South Africa may not be willing to travel to Ethiopia, or Morocco. Similarly, Russia is one country, but Eastern Russia is very different from Western Russia (I assume you mean like, Moscow, but you could specify); and by Asia, do you mean East Asia, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East?

Otherwise, see @aturon's answer for the rest of my feedback :)

ubsan · Apr 27, 2017

Kneejerk feedback:

"My company doesn't let me use Rust" - I'd rather have something like "My company doesn't use Rust": it feels less oppositional.

"What operating system do you compile for and run your Rust projects on?" - this list should probably ordered in some way by popularity, alphabetic ordering feels wrong here.

Again for the cross-compile bit.

"Which titles do you believe best match your role?" - this has a weird, kind of alphabetical but kind of not ordering? Also, it'd be nice to have a "hobbyist" option.

"What language are you fluent in?" should be "languages". Also, if this is going to be an exclusively english survey, this seems weird to ask; I'd have to assume they're at least fluent in english, or else they'd not take the survey.

"To which of these regions would you travel to attend a Rust conference?" - This seems weirdly split up, having multiple areas for a single small continent (Europe - East vs West), versus North America, which is one place; might be better to split it up into four corners? Similarly with Africa, Africa is giant and someone who's willing to travel to South Africa may not be willing to travel to Ethiopia, or Morocco. Similarly, Russia is one country, but Eastern Russia is very different from Western Russia (I assume you mean like, Moscow, but you could specify); and by Asia, do you mean East Asia, Southeast Asia, India, the Middle East?

Otherwise, see @aturon's answer for the rest of my feedback :)

Overall, this looks good, but it feels really long. I worry that it might put off some people. I think it could be less exhaustive and still be just as useful (especially if we get more replies).

How would you rate your Rust expertise? I'm not a fan of 'average' because it suggests that you need to know where you stand relative to others, whereas the other options are kind of absolute. I'd prefer 'intermediate'.

Along with these tools, what other tools do you use? 'these tools' is confusing, does it mean the tools before or after? I would change to 'the compiler and Cargo'. Could you add IntelliJ to this list please? (I guess it is on the next list, so maybe not) I'm not sure it is worth asking about the RLS - it is not user facing, so might be confusing, plus we have not really released it.

Cross compile questions could be simplified, I think - feels like there is redundant information here.

Which titles do you believe best match your role? I feel like this list could be halved - does it matter if someone regards themself as ceo vs founder vs executive? 'Designer' should be more explicit - does this mean design code, graphic design, UI design?

What language are you fluent in? Should be languages, likewise in the 'other' question. This seems a pretty random list of languages, what were the criteria for choosing? 'Chinese' is not a language, it should probably be 'a Chinese language' (likewise with Indian, which is not on the list, but should be). In fact, it might be better to list actual languages - Mandarin/Cantonese/Hindi, say.

'Are you interested...' questions probably don't need a 'I don't know' answer

'Challenges and Feedback' section - we should be clear about whether this means the challenges for the person answering in particular or what that person thinks the challenges for the community as a whole are.

Including the 'contact' section with the survey makes me a bit twitchy. I'd rather the survey were kept anonymous and we collect contact info elsewhere.

nrc · Apr 30, 2017