In late 2016 and early 2017 we polled over 5,000 developers to identify the State of Developer Ecosystem.
Here's what we learned.
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Programming languages
42% of all developers don't plan to adopt any new languages.
How often do you use the following tools? (%)
Note: Percentage totals may not equal 100% because of rounding.
More than 70% of Java and C# developers use an IDE all day long.
For C and C++ developers, the numbers are 40% and 50%, respectively.
Do you do unit testing in your projects?
Do you contribute to open-source projects?
of open source contributors don’t do unit testing
Development environment operating systems
use Unix / Linux and Windows simultaneously
Application types
are doing full stack development (both back-end and front-end)
Target mobile OS
target more than 1 mobile operating system
Do you play video games?
of full-time C# developers play video games
What is your favorite game genre?
C developers love hardcore games, with less than 1% preferring Casual games.
Full-time developers prefer playing Simulations and Strategies. Part-timers like Action and Role-playing games. Freelancers are fond of Action-adventures and Role-playing. Self-employed go for Strategies, while students love Action-adventures.
How many hours a day do you sleep? (%)
Gamers sleep less than non-gamers. Same goes for those who do code review. Could code review be as fun as gaming? :)
How many hours a week do you spend coding? (%)
Only 11% don't have a personal or side project.
Do you code on weekends?
52% of programmers who don't have a side project still code on weekends.
Do you have and use a cell / smart phone?
Those who develop for Android mostly have Android smartphones (77%), while those who develop for iOS have Apple iOS smartphones (64%).
Only 17% of those who develop for Windows have Windows-based smartphones.
of developers have 2 or more smartphones with different OSs
Do you prefer the keyboard or the mouse?
Are you right-handed, left-handed or ambidextrous?
Left-handed developers prefer the keyboard more than do right-handed and ambidextrous ones. They also tend to customize keymaps in the their IDEs and editors more often.
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