If this survey was taken to be the “be all and end all” of what should be concentrated on when developing a language, we would be on a sorry state.

That said, I think it just highlights how many people like me there are out there. If, like me, you only know a very basic level of C# then naturally parallel programming is of no use to me. If you look at the average Windows application for example, you find a lot of them are running on .NET Framework and you are unlikely to be working deep enough to worry about parallel programming.

Of course if you are writing a physics engine or pretty much anything with “rendering” in the name, you probably are going to be more concerned with parallel programming. This survey just highlights the natural flow of things, that there are far more people doing really high-level programming than low-level. Even games developers likely aren’t worrying about parallel programming as they often license the engine from someone else who had the responsibility for that.

For example, the survey report tells us that remote development is something that “developers care about least”. But surely it would be a more accurate interpretation of the facts to say that remote development is something that “few developers care about”. That’s simply because most groups of developers are in the same building, so they don’t need support for remote development.

I also think the remark “sorry Intel!” misses the point by a wide margin. Shouldn’t that be “Sorry end-users”?