The results are in, where will your favorite stack up?
This year's StackOverflow Developer Survey results are in. Did your favorite programming language make the stack?
If you are interested in looking at the full results you can link to the complete results on the official StackOverflow website.
In an interesting increase from last year, online learning increased from 70% to 80%.
According to the survey results from 2022, Angular.js is in its third year as the most dreaded. React.js completes its fifth year as most wanted. This year they appear to have dropped the category replacing it with a new category to help showcase up-and-coming technologies such as Phoenix as the most admired web framework and technology; more developers would choose to work with Phoenix again than those who have used the three most common: React, Node.js, and Next.js. What isn't clear from this, is why they admire Phoenix or why they would choose to work with it over the other three more commonly chosen frameworks.
To help educate the reader regarding Phoenix I offer a link to the Phoenix Framework.
Another new category for this year is most admired and coming in at number 1 is Rust. Listed last year in its seventh year as the most loved language for the seventh year with (87%) of developers saying they want to continue using it.
Chosen as the top two async tools amongst all developers for the second year in a row are Jira and Confluence. An interesting new addition as the number three is Markdown Files.
AI was a big topic for developers with two categories coming in, sentiment and usage reporting that 70% of all respondents are using or are planning to use AI tools in their development process this year. Those learning to code are more likely than professional developers to be using or use AI tools (82% this year vs. 70% last year).
Not surprisingly, in the worked with vs. want to work with category, 42% of ChatGPT users want to use Google Bard or Bing AI next year. These users are enjoying their experience: 79% want to use ChatGPT again next year.
The top paying technologies to know in 2023 is Zig, while Clojure gets knocked from the top spot with a 10% decrease from last year's results.