The Stack Overflow
has released its much-anticipated Developer Survey in 2017. This year, over
64,000 developers took part in the survey and shared their preferences. The
survey revealed that for the fifth time in a row, JavaScript was the most
commonly used programming language, followed by SQL and Java.
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Stack Overflow is the world’s largest online community for programmers where
they can learn languages, share code, and help each other. The website also
releases its annual developer survey which gives a pretty solid idea of current
programming trends, the work lives of developers, their habits and preferences,
etc.
Since 2011,
Stack Overflow is conducting this survey on each year. This year’s survey is the biggest
in Stack Overflow’s history with a figure 64,000 developers taking part. I’ll be telling you about some of the major
highlights of this survey.
Most popular
programming languages:
For the fifth time in a row, JavaScript has
topped the list of the most commonly used programming languages. JavaScript is
followed by SQL and Java.
The growth of Python is notable. It has
overtaken PHP for the first time in five years. Here’s the list of the most
popular programming languages:
Most
popular frameworks, libraries:
In this category, Node.js and AngularJS continue to be the most
commonly used technologies:
Most popular
databases:
For the first time in its survey, Stack Overflow
asked the developers what databases they were using. MySQL and SQL Server
turned out to be the biggest databases:
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