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The 2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results are out: survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/

65,437 coders replied (suspiciously close to 2^16 🤔) from 185 countries.

Here’s some charts of basic demographics.

More insights to follow… 🧵

The survey featured AI questions for the 2nd year.

While only 43% of developers trust the accuracy of LLM output, 81% noted increased productivity as its primary benefit, with 71% using it to learn.

Only 12% of developers perceive AI as a threat to their job.

Most have some ethical concerns with AI: mis/disinfo (79%), attribution (65%), bias (50%), energy use (36%), taking jobs (34%).

ChatGPT (82%) is way more popular than other AI tools, Copilot (42%), Gemini (24%), Bing (16%), Claude (8%).

Quinn Comendant

Hetzner is the most admired cloud platform (75% want to continue working with it), but is only used by 5% of developers.

Cloudflare admired by 68% (used by 15%),
AWS admired by 63% (used by 48%),
Azure admired by 60% (used by 28%),
GCP admired by 56% (used by 25%).

Signal is the most admired chat app (74% of developers) despite being the 9th most popular, with only 11.5% of respondents using it (about the same % as Skype, and 37% as many as WhatsApp).

Only about half of Zoom and Microsoft Teams users want to continue using them, despite being two of the most popular chat tools (along with Slack, which people admire much more, but not as much as Signal).

survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/t

/cc @Mer__edith

Etc:

jQuery is the 3rd-most popular web framework. 😏

“Markdown File” is the most admired asynchronous tool. 👏

64% of developers spent over one hour a day “searching for answer or solutions to problems.” Yep, that sounds about right. 😭

Technical debt is the #1 frustration at work (62% of respondents), followed by complexity of tech stack (32%).

Coders: 19% happy at work, 48% complacent, 33% not happy.

Managers: 26% happy at work, 48% complacent, 26% not happy.

Filtering the survey results for admired but unpopular reveals hidden gems:

Phoenix (84% admire, 2% use)
Ruff (84%, 3%)
Elixir (77%, 2%)
Bun (76%, 4%)
Hetzner (75%, 5%)
Roslyn (74%, 2%)
Tauri (74%, 2%)
Godot (74%, 4%)
Zig (74%, 1%)
Signal (74%, 11%)
Htmx (73%, 3%)
Nix (73%, 3%)
DataGrip (73%, 5%)
Hugging Face (73%, 5%)
Pacman (73%, 5%)
Rider (73%, 6%)
Svelte (73%, 7%)
Astro (72%, 3%)
Datomic (71%, 0.4%)
ZMK (71%, 1%)
Matrix (71%, 3%)
DuckDB (70%, 1%)
Ktor (70%, 1%)
Linear (70%, 3%)

In the survey, “admired” is a measure of the percentage of developers who used the tool this year and want to continue using it next year.

“Use” is the percentage of developers who used the tool this year.

@com it’s the ideal product phase — loved, but not loved enough to be hated

@com This clearly proofs that people admire tools until they actually (have to) use them. Then the admiration is fading away. 😉

@joschi In this survey, “admired” means they used the tool this year, and want to use it again next year. The word doesn’t encapsulate the meaning well, I would have used “preferred” instead.

It would be useful to measure which tools developers used for the first time this year, and don't want to use it again next year!