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Developers’ needs due to COVID-19, Programming language communities update and more Developer trends 2020 and beyond
The 19th Developer Economics global survey wave ran from June to August 2020 and reached more than 17,000 developers in 159 countries.Hot off the press “State of the Developer Nation” report presents developer trends for Q3 2020 and beyond with a focus on six major topics:
1. Developers’ extra needs due to COVID-19
2. Programming language communities – an update
3. Why do developers adopt or reject cloud technologies?
4. Who is into DevOps?
5. What do developers value in open source?
6. Emerging technologies
Spark Your readers’ curiosity with these highlights
Developers’ extra needs due to COVID-19
- Four in ten developers report that they need more flexibility in working hours/workload as a consequence of COVID-19.
- Developers responsible for tooling specifications and for approving budgets and expenses are in the greatest need of increased security, performance, and cloud space.
Programming language communities – an update
- JavaScript is the most popular programming language by a wide margin, with 12.4M developers globally using it. Nearly 5M developers joined the JavaScript community in the last three years.
- Python now counts 9M users, after adding 2.2M net new developers in the past year alone, outranking Java at the beginning 2020.
- Kotlin is one of the fastest growing language communities, having increased more than twofold in size since the end 2017.
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