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The lovely company, JetBrains conducted marketing research called "The State of Developer Ecosystem 2019". They surveyed about 19000 software developers and built a final report based on responses from 7000 of them. An exciting read with lots of infographics.
I remember their motto "Develop with Pleasure" on the splash screen of IntelliJ IDEA screen circa 15 years ago.
Findings and my reaction on them
Findings and my reaction on them
Top-5 programming languages are JavaScript, Java, Python, HTML / CSS, and SQL.
Curious, since when HTML and CSS become programming languages?
Developers use Windows, MacOS, or Linux operation systems while developing software.
Well, what else we can use?
Around 60% of us doing Web Back-end development, 45% develop Front-end, and 23% work every day on Mobile applications development. Only 4% develop games, and 7% apply their maths skills in Machine Learning.
Wait for a second, who develops software for airplanes, for SpaceX, for schools and CERN? Who invents new programming languages, or speeds up genome sequencing? Who advances the whole field and makes the world a bit better than it is?
They all fall into category "Others" with a tiny 2%.
The fun fact is that 13% of software developers don't develop anything.
Maybe the best among us don't have time to participate in all those surveys?
Software developers prefer dogs over cats.
Surprise!
I bet you use open source software every day when you code. All those libraries. Do you contribute back to society? The answer from 44% of developers is "No."
Well, from the other side, 56% of developers said "Yes"! BTW, I do. Here is the library I maintain: play-zhewbacca
Couple of words about our future:
What about work-life balance? 87% of us do code on weekends.
Yeah, it's not enough just to be a back-end or front-end developer. We want to make the world a better place.
Joking. We have side work and plan to retire at 40. Check my https://www.kwords.io
Joking. We have side work and plan to retire at 40. Check my https://www.kwords.io
The research also covers Java, C, C++, C#, Go, Python, PHP, Ruby, Swift & Objective-C, Scala, JavaScript, Kotlin, Databases, Team tools, DevOps, and Rust. I am going to put their findings on Technology Trends page as well.
Jun 28, 2019. Berlin
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