When thinking about blockers to productivity, different kinds of developers report different challenges.Developers in Western European countries like France and Germany are among the least optimistic about the future. Of the top countries on our survey, China has developers that are the most optimistic, believing that people born today will have a better life than their parents.DevOps specialists and site reliability engineers are among the highest paid, most experienced developers most satisfied with their jobs, and are looking for new jobs at the lowest levels.Over half of respondents had written their first line of code by the time they were sixteen, although this experience varies by country and by gender.Python, the fastest-growing major programming language, has risen in the ranks of programming languages in our survey yet again, edging out Java this year and standing as the second most loved language (behind Rust).Want to dive into the results yourself? The anonymized results of the survey are available for download under the Open Database License (ODbL). Also be sure to check out a few new topics this year ranging from hours worked per week to the best music to listen to while coding! Look for the icon to see where we highlight results where it did have an interesting impact. We looked at breakdowns by demographics throughout our analysis, and in most cases it did not have a significant effect. Look for this icon, which highlights differences between developer demographics. To address the characteristics of our data, be sure to check out where we summarize results by country or gender, highlight results for underrepresented racial/ethnic groups, or use survey weighting to correct for demographic skew.

Some of these survey results directly guide those efforts. We are committed to building on steps we’ve taken in 2018 and improving in this area this year and beyond. We have further work to do to make Stack Overflow the welcoming, inclusive, and diverse platform we want it to be, and this is reflected in our survey sample. This year marks the ninth year we’ve published our annual Developer Survey results, and nearly 90,000 developers took the 20-minute survey earlier this year.ĭespite our survey’s broad reach and capacity for informing valuable conclusions, we acknowledge that our results don’t represent everyone in the developer community evenly. Each year, we field a survey covering everything from developers’ favorite technologies to their job preferences. Stack Overflow’s annual Developer Survey is the largest and most comprehensive survey of people who code around the world. Learn moreĬreate a secure space for your engineering team to ask and answer private questions. Source, attract and recruit developers on the platform they trust most. Stack Overflow Jobs puts developers first.

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