The first thing to note about the Most Loved list is the lack of correspondence with the Most Popular table above. % of devs who are not developing with the language or tech but have expressed interest in developing with it. % of devs who are developing with the language or tech but have not expressed interest in continuing to do so. % of devs who are developing with the language or tech that have expressed interest in continuing to develop with it. Stack Overflow probed deeper by asking devs questions about their attitude to the languages and technologies they had used over the past year and which ones they would like to work with. Node.js has almost doubled in popularity and entering the technologies table this year AngularJS. Back then C++ and C were more popular than Python. So what languages are currently being used on a day-to-basis and has this changed at all over the last couple of years?Īs far as 2015 is concerned the Most Popular Technologies are ranked as shown below, based on almost 22K responses:īack in 2013 SQL topped the list but the same five languages have appeared as the top five since 2013. The results also suggest that those in senior roles are the ones pushing up the average suggesting that caffeine consumption is pretty moderate among programmers. Norway, Sweden and Finland all come near the top of the league table with around 3 cups per day on average. However, based on 16,516 responses, which is less than two thirds of the total number of participants, the average developer drinks only 2.2 servings of such drinks per day. It is generally thought that devs are fuelled by tea, coffee and other beverages with high caffeine content. [using}JavaScript with NotePad++ on a Windows machine (theme: dark) using Git, and tabs instead of spaces.įirst let's digress with the survey finding on caffeine consumption.

Now we turn to the Technology section of the report and discover how devs like to work. We have already looked at the results regarding age, gender and education from its more than 25K respondents. The Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey, conducted during February had 45 questions. The Stack Overflow Developer Survey reveals a lot about developer preferences regarding languages, operating systems, source control and whether they favor tabs or spaces.

Notepad++ tabs to spaces preferences