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Are these questions really representative of what the PSF want to know?

I see a couple of boilerplate experience and background questions then the rest is almost exclusively what IDE you use, why you use that IDE, how you use your IDE, what tools/frameworks/databases/AI assistants/… (most of which PyCharm happens to have corresponding paid features for) do you use, what IDE features do you rely on…

There’s not really anything about Python itself, not even a mere do you like using Python? There are plenty of debates that happen on here which could be better grounded if we had real data on questions like whether people think Python and it’s packaging ecosystem is changing for better or worse or just moving the goal posts around, if it makes (breaking) changes too fast or too slow, should it prioritise being faster/smaller/lighter/richer/more expressive/more batteries included. It would also be nice just to cast a wider net on questions like what you think Python’s (ecosytem’s) biggest pain points are (with a nice big checkbox next to xkcd 1987 for me to click! :slight_smile:).

I’m trying not to sound conspiratorial but this current survey feels like marketing data for JetBrains rather than something to benefit the Python community.

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