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Why should companies contribute to open-source? How many developers are engaged with DevOps?

We surveyed 17,000 developers in 159 countries and we are ready to present you key developer trends for H1 2020 and beyond.
The 18th State of the Developer Nation Report focuses on six major topics - each with its own visualisations, showing how the data lends insight into the developer community:
- Programming language communities
- Contributing to open-source software
- DevOps Participants and Adoption
- Where do machine learning developers run their code
- A profiling of Augmented & Virtual reality developers
- Adoption and engagement of emerging technologies
You can download full report for free here: https://sdata.me/SoNshare
Highlights that will spark your curiosity:
- JavaScript remains the most popular programming language, with more than 12M developers worldwide using it. #ProgrammingLanguages
- Python added 2.2M net new developers in 2018 and surpassed Java in terms of popularity. It is now the second-largest programming language community overall. #ProgrammingLanguages
- 3 out of 5 developers contribute to open-source software #OpenSource
- 46% of developers using CI/CD tools work for firms with 20 or more people involved in software development #DevOps
- 22% of AR & VR non-developers are learning how to code. The most popular languages for this group are Java, C++ and C#. #ARVR
- ML developers working with big data and deep learning frameworks are more likely to deploy their code on hybrid and multi clouds #MachineLearning
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SlashData helps top 100 technology firms understand the profile of developer communities and measure the ROI of their developer strategies. As an analyst firm, SlashData surveys 30,000+ developers annually and analyse that data to help clients target the right developers, prioritise the right features for their products, and optimise their marketing budget to drive developer engagement and satisfaction.
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