Not so long ago Stack Overflow released the results of their annual developer survey. This year, they had more than respondents, while in 2017 this number was . Amazing! It is the world’s largest developer survey fow now. 100,000 64,000 Here I compiled some points from “Technology” part. So now lets see what the software development profession looks like in comparing to . 2018 2017 2017 1 Programming languages For the sixth year in a row, is the most commonly used programming language. has risen in the ranks, surpassing this year, much like it surpassed last year. JavaScript Python C# PHP 2018 2017 2 Frameworks, libraries and tools and just swithched their places, continuing to be the most commonly used technologies in this category, with and also important to many developers. Node.js AngularJS React .Net Core 2018 2017 3 Databases Like last year, and are the most commonly used databases. MySQL SQL Server 2018 2017 4 Platforms and or are the most common choices that respondents say they have done development work for this year. Linux Windows Desktop Server 2017 5 Most loved languages For the third year in a row, is the most loved programming language among respondents, followed close behind by , a language that was asked about for the first time on the survey this year. This means that proportionally, more developers want to continue working with these than other languages. Rust Kotlin 2018 2017 6 Most loved frameworks, libraries and tools one of the fastest growing technologies on Stack Overflow, is most loved by developers. is the framework developers say they most want to work with if they do not already. TensorFlow, React 2018 2017 7 Development environment Visual Studio Code just edged out Visual Studio as the most popular developer environment tool for web developers. 2018 2017 8 Top paying technologies And the most inteteresting point. Who is a rich cat here? Globally, respondents who use , , , and earn the highest salaries, with median salaries above $70,000 USD. Think about that! )) F# Ocaml Clojure Groovy 2018 Written by Natalia Kukushkina

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