Stackoverflow.com has published the results of a developer survey conducted in May 2022. In total, more than 70,000 developers took part in the survey. Some poll results.
Most Popular Development Tools
The most used programming languages were distributed as follows (note: the stackoverflow.com team also included HTML/CSS and SQL in the list of programming languages):
- JavaScript – 65.36%
- HTML/CSS – 55.08%
- SQL – 49.43%
- Python – 48.07%
- TypeScript – 34.83%
- Java – 33.27%
- Bash/Shell – 29.07%
- C# – 27.98%
- C++ – 22.55%
- PHP – 20.87%
- C – 19.27%
- PowerShell – 12.07%
- Go – 11.15%
- Rust – 9.32%
- Kotlin – 9.16%
- Dart – 6.54%
- Ruby – 6.05%
- Assembly – 5.47%
- Swift – 4.91%
- R – 4.66%
- VBA – 4.48%
- Matlab – 4.1%
- Groovy – 3.32%
- Delphi – 3.25%
- Scala – 2.59%
- Objective-C – 2.39%
- Perl – 2.31%
- Haskell – 2.22%
- Elixir – 2.15%
- Julia – 1.53%
- Clojure – 1.51%
- Solidity – 1.45%
- LISP – 1.31%
- F# – 1.03%
- Fortran – 0.91%
- Erlang – 0.9%
- APL – 0.71%
- COBOL – 0.65%
- SAS – 0.61%
- OCalm – 0.59%
- Crystal – 0.48%
If we look at the dynamics and compare them with last year’s survey results , we will see that in general, most positions have retained last year’s values, and the dynamics, as a rule, fit into the range of plus or minus 1-2%. What can speak about the stability of the ecosystem of developers? JavaScript is still the most popular language, followed by the HTML/CSS bundle. Also on the site are the results of a survey of professional developers, where the overall indicators and trends do not differ much.
Separately, a rating was compiled for such programming languages and technologies with which developers currently do not work, but would like to work, as well as languages that they like and dislike.
Rust took first place among the languages that they like – 86.73% of respondents like it. Also in the top five languages are Elixir, Closure, TypeScript, and Julia.
The topmost DON’T-like language was Matlab (disliked by 80.84% of respondents), followed by Cobol, VBA, Objective-C, and Fortran.
Among the languages with which the developers have not worked, but would like to work, the rating was distributed as follows:
- Rust – 17.6%
- Python – 17.59%
- TypeScript – 17.03%
- Go – 16.41%
- JavaScript – 12.98%
- Kotlin – 8.08%
- C++ – 7.67%
- SQL – 6.51%
- C# – 6.11%
- Java – 5.6%
- Dart – 4.83%
- C – 4.43%
- Swift – 4.3%
- HTML/CSS – 4.09%
- Elixir – 3.07%
- Haskell – 2.98%
- Solidity – 2.82%
- Ruby – 2.66%
- Bash/Shell – 2.65%
- Assembly – 2.5%
- R – 2.33%
- Scala – 2.21%
- PHP – 2.17%
- F# – 2.01%
- Julia – 2.05%
- Lua – 1.72%
- Clojure – 1.63%
- PowerShell – 1.55%
- Erlang – 1.25%
- LISP – 1.02%
- OCalm – 0.77%
- Matlab – 0.76%
- Objective-C – 0.71%
- APL – 0.55%
- Perl – 0.53%
- Crystal – 0.51%
- Groovy – 0.47%
- VBA – 0.39%
- Fortran – 0.39%
- COBOL – 0.37%
- SAS – 0.33%
- Delphi – 0.23%
Thus, in the top five most desired languages are Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust.
Most popular databases
Among the most used database systems, the choice of developers was distributed as follows:
- MySQL – 46.85%
- PostgreSQL – 43.59%
- SQLite – 32.01%
- MongoDB – 28.3%
- Microsoft SQL Server – 26.87%
- Redis – 22.13%
- MariaDB – 17.93%
- Elasticsearch – 12.21%
- Oracle – 11.49%
- Firebase – 8.72%
- DynamoDB – 8.26%
- Cloud Firestore – 7.45%
- Cassandra – 2.66%
- Neo4j – 2.12%
- IBM DB2 – 2%
- Couchbase – 1.33%
- CouchDB – 1.29%
Most popular web frameworks
Separately, the popularity of web frameworks was calculated, moreover, client and server side technologies are mixed here.
- Node.js – 47.12%
- React.js – 42.62%
- jQuery – 28.57%
- Express – 22.99%
- Angular – 20.39%
- Vue.js – 18.82%
- ASP.NET Core – 18.59%
- ASP.NET – 14.9%
- Django – 14.65%
- Flask – 14.64%
- Next.js – 13.52%
- Laravel – 9.45%
- Angular.js – 8.99%
- FastAPI – 6.02%
- Ruby on Rails – 5.83%
- Svelte – 4.58%
- Blazor – 4.46%
- Nuxt.js – 3.83%
- Symfony – 3.58%
- Gatsby – 3.46%
- Drupal – 2.22%
- Foenix- 2.13%
- Fastify – 1.85%
- Deno – 1.69%
- Play Framework- 0.82%
Most used text editors/IDEs
The list of the most popular text editors/programming environments according to the results of the survey looks like this:
- Visual Studio Code – 74.48%
- Visual Studio – 32.15%
- IntelliJ – 27.97%
- Notepad++ – 27.71%
- Vim – 23.34%
- Android Studio – 19.8%
- PyCharm – 17.24%
- Sublime Text – 16.59%
- Eclipse – 12.57%
- IPython/Jupyter – 11.61%
- Xcode – 10.53%
- Atom – 9.35%
- Webstorm – 7.94%
- PHPStorm – 6.79%
- Neovim – 6.75%
- NetBeans – 5.24%
- CLion – 5.02%
- Rider – 4.94%
- Emacs – 4.51%
- RStudio – 3.39%
- GoLand – 3.33%
- RAD Studio (Delphi, C++ Builder) – 2.69%
- Qt Creater – 2.68%
- Spyder – 2.32%
- RubyMine – 1.38%
- TextMate – 0.73%
The most paid technologies
The ranking of the most paid programming languages/technologies looks like this (the value represents the median annual salary in US dollars):
- Clojure – 106 644$
- Erlang – 103 000$
- F# – 95 526$
- LISP – 95 000$
- Ruby – 93 000$
- Elixir – 92 959$
- Scala – 92 780$
- Perl – 90 073$
- Go – 89 204$
- Rust – 87 047$
- OCaml – 86 948$
- Groovy – 85 320$
- Crystal – 84 690$
- Objective-C – 83 165$
- Bash/Shell – 81 666$
- Haskell – 80 250$
- Fortran – 80 000$
- Lua – 79 568$
- Swift – 78 468$
- PowerShell – 78 084$
- Julia – 77 966$
- APL – 75 932$
- COBOL – 75 592$
- Assembly – 75 000$
- Python – 71 105$
- Solidity – 70 368$
- TypeScript – 70 276$
- C# – 69 516$
- Kotlin – 69 318$
- SQL – 69 108$
- C++ – 68 000$
- R – 67 734$
- C – 67 186$
- JavaScript – 65 580$
- Java – 64 572$
- SAS – 64 243$
- Delphi – 63 984$
- HTML/CSS – 63 984$
- VBA – 62 328$
- MATLAB – 57 588$
- PHP – 50 496$
- Dart – 43 724$
Details of the survey results can be found on the stackoverflow.com website at https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/