In the beginning of 2019 jet-brains polled almost 7,000 developers to identify the state of developer ecosystem
Key takeaways
Java
The most popular programming language
JavaScript
The most used overall programming language
GO
The most promising programming language
Python
Most studied language
What Programming language programmers have used in the last year
| language | used | migrate |
|---|---|---|
| JavaScript | 69% | 5% |
| HTML | 61% | 2% |
| SQL | 56% | 2% |
| Java | 50% | 4% |
| python | 49% | 9% |
Operating System
Operating system is very important for development and here is some stats for the operating systems used among the 7,000 developers that took the survey.
| Windows | Mac | Unix/Linux | others |
|---|---|---|---|
| 57% | 49% | 48% | 1% |
This proves that Chrome Os still has long way to go even after Linux support
Applications created
This was categorized according to two parts, applications developers are writing to earn money and those only out of hobby
| Application | for living | as a hobby |
|---|---|---|
| Web back-end | 60% | 39% |
| web front-end | 46% | 37% |
| Mobile application | 23% | 27% |
| Data Analysis | 13% | 11% |
| Machine Learning | 7% | 16% |
| Games | 4% | 17% |
By looking at this stats we can argue that developers really love, game development and machine learning
Mobile
For which mobile operating system developers are developing
| Operating System | ratio |
|---|---|
| Android | 83% |
| ios | 59% |
| other | 3% |
Two thirds of mobile developers use native tools to develop for mobile OS. Every other developer uses cross-platform technologies or frameworks.
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