Developer Survey Results 2019

<i>We asked respondents to evaluate their own competence, for the specific work they do and years of experience they have, and almost 70% of respondents say they are above average while less than 10% think they are below average. This is statistically unlikely with a sample of over 70,000 developers who answered this question, to put it mildly.</i><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;survey&#x2F;2019#developer-profile-_-all-of-the-developers-are-above-average" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;survey&#x2F;2019#developer-pro...</a>

Drupal and jQuery are now the top two &quot;Most Dreaded Web Frameworks,&quot; with Ruby on Rails and Angular.js trailing.[0]<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;survey&#x2F;2019#technology-_-most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-web-frameworks" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;survey&#x2F;2019#technology-_-...</a>

Will People Born Today Have a Better Life Than Their Parents?<p>&gt; Respondents in China are the most optimistic, and those in regions like Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East are especially hopeful compared to those in Western Europe. This is especially notable in countries like France and Germany, which are the 4th and 7th largest economies in the world, respectively.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;survey&#x2F;2019#developer-profile-_-will-people-born-today-have-a-better-life-than-their-parents" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;insights.stackoverflow.com&#x2F;survey&#x2F;2019#developer-pro...</a><p>The bottom fifteen countries in this question are all European countries + Turkey + North America + Australia.<p>(France, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Netherlands, Germany, Spain, UK, Canada, Turkey, Austria, US, Sweden, Australia, Denmark).<p>Yikes. Didn&#x27;t realize so many people around here do think that things are going downhill.

Wish the full CSV results were available already as I use them to negotiate my salary since they&#x27;re much more reliable and up to date than Glassdoor.

The adoption of Visual Studio Code by a large part of the respondents in just a few years is impressive (initial release was in April 2015).

Interesting to see a static typed language growing on the frontend, while Python is now the most popular backend language.

It&#x27;s interesting to see VSCode come to top in every section.

Bittersweet to see how much “distracting work environment” is reported to reduce productivity, given that companies abjectly refuse to provide private &amp; quiet workspaces despite it being unequivocally cost effective to do so even for most start-ups in dense urban centers.<p>I continue to find the discussion of salary disappointing though. The survey provides a good opportunity for more detailed information.

It is probably worth pointing out that this survey is very web&#x2F;mobile developer centric. If you surveyed systems&#x2F;core developers -- the people who designed&#x2F;wrote many of the tools used by developers in this survey -- the survey results would distribute quite differently.

Very interesting. I wish there was an easy way to compare results with previous years.<p>Surprised to see BSD usage at only 0.1%. I know it would be a small percentage but I&#x27;d expect 1-2%.

Really surprised the sentiment towards blockchain is so positive. Just goes to show how much of an echo chamber HN can be.

&quot;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.&quot;<p>This really surprises me. Is it that common to take programming classes in high school? I suppose nowadays it is, but can anyone else confirm that was the case 10-20 years ago?

Would be better visually if bars&#x27; lengths were interactively changing as you switched tabs, like what Hackerrank does.[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.hackerrank.com&#x2F;student-developer&#x2F;2018" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;research.hackerrank.com&#x2F;student-developer&#x2F;2018</a>

This is an error: &quot;About 65% of professional developers on Stack Overflow contribute to open source projects once a year or more.&quot;<p>The data above it adds up to 35.5%.

I think they really dropped the ball by grouping Angular and AngularJS together.

I found it quite surprising that Azure is the least used and most dreaded cloud of the three major cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure) among all respondents, despite Stack Overflow being heavily C# and .NET biased.

Advice on moving over to dev ops from web dev?

surprised how few people use Microsoft SQL Server. I guess most people don&#x27;t work with databases at all?