{"id":11471,"date":"2019-04-11T13:57:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-11T13:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/?p=11471"},"modified":"2019-04-11T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T14:00:33","slug":"stack-overflow-survey-shows-leap-in-popularity-for-visual-studio-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itwriting.com\/blog\/11471-stack-overflow-survey-shows-leap-in-popularity-for-visual-studio-code.html","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow survey shows leap in popularity for Visual Studio Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stack Overflow has released the results<\/a> of its annual developer survey. I took a quick look, comparing the figures to those for 2018.<\/p>\n

The survey is based on results from 88,883 developers from 179 countries. 400 responses were excluded because they took less than 3 minutes to complete!<\/p>\n

A few things caught my eye.<\/p>\n

Visual Studio Code<\/strong> is the most popular development tool, with over 50% of developers saying they use it. This is up from 34.9% last year. Visual Studio (which I guess includes Visual Studio for Mac) is second but has gone down from 34.3% to 31.5%.<\/p>\n

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Visual Studio Code is an amazing success; it is only four years old. What is the benefit to Microsoft though? There must be some benefit via the branding and gentle steers towards Microsoft services such as Azure; but this is mainly about Microsoft delivering a great free and open source developer tool and getting kudos in return.<\/p>\n

Few other technologies have moved by such a dramatic amount. JavaScript remains top in languages but slightly down, 69.8% to 67.8%. Python is gently up, 38.8% to 41.7%. C# slightly down, 34.4% to 31%. Swift is down a bit, 8.1% to 6.6%, which is a little surprising to me.<\/p>\n

TypeScript is up from 17.4% to 21.2%. Another impressive open source project from Microsoft and the great Anders Hejlsberg (Object Pascal, Delphi, C#, TypeScript).<\/p>\n

In frameworks, last year StackOverflow had a single category for .NET Core (27.2%) while ignoring .NET Framework. This year it has 23.7% for .NET Core and 37.4% for .NET \u2013 no trends are therefore visible but next year perhaps.<\/p>\n

There is an overly broad platform category including everything from Raspberry Pi to WordPress to AWS. I do not have much confidence in these figures, but notice that AWS is up from 24.1% to 29.5%, Google Cloud Platform up from 8% to 12.8%, and Azure up from 11% to  11.9%. Not good figures for Azure, now third behind AWS and Google. But Microsoft can take comfort from Windows, supposedly up from 35.4% to 50.7%. <\/p>\n

Both Android (29% to 27%) and iOS (15.5% to 13%) are down slightly. I do not think this is meaningful movement but it does suggest that mobile app development is not longer a big growth area; perhaps there is more attention being paid to server apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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