Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019
2019 April 10
Very interesting survey.
Here are some highlights:
- Python is now #2 in terms of language popularity (right behind, you know it, JavaScript)
- many young people in programming with less than 5 years experience
- 85% taught themselves a language without taking a formal course, and a bunch have taken an online course
- 16% use Reddit and YouTube (more than Facebook), with 7% not using social media at all
- React is slightly more popular than Angular, but by far the most-loved and most-wanted
- Django is slightly more popular than Flask
- Pandas is super-popular, which is no surprise since Python is so popular with the data wranglers
- Linux tops platforms, followed by Windows, with MacOS way down
- Python is second "most-loved" language, with Rust at the top, followed by TypeScript and Kotlin
- Most-dreaded languages are VBA and Objective-C (and I can personally vouch for the Objective-C result!)
- Python is the "most-wanted" language
- Visual Studio Code is the most popular development environment