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Survey - Software development - Survey results
Propose of this survey is to capture what are the most popular development operating systems, programming languages and code editors/IDEs for groups based on gender, age, education and residence of developer.
1) What operating system do you use on your developer’s machine?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Windows 10 | 846 | 35.24 |
Windows 8 | 103 | 4.29 |
Windows 7 | 787 | 32.78 |
Windows Vista | 8 | 0.33 |
Windows XP | 3 | 0.13 |
Linux Mint | 114 | 4.75 |
Debian | 149 | 6.21 |
Ubuntu | 142 | 5.91 |
openSUSE | 8 | 0.33 |
Manjaro | 11 | 0.46 |
Fedora | 112 | 4.66 |
Gentoo | 111 | 4.62 |
Mac OS X | 3 | 0.12 |
macOS | 4 | 0.17 |
2) What programming languages do you use?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Java | 844 | 30.97 |
C | 212 | 7.78 |
C++ | 227 | 8.33 |
C# | 18 | 0.66 |
Python | 33 | 1.21 |
PHP | 52 | 1.91 |
JavaScript | 929 | 34.09 |
Visual Basic .NET | 154 | 5.65 |
Object Pascal | 7 | 0.26 |
Perl | 167 | 6.13 |
Ruby | 11 | 0.41 |
Swift | 9 | 0.33 |
Assembler | 14 | 0.52 |
Go | 6 | 0.22 |
R | 6 | 0.22 |
Visual Basic | 8 | 0.29 |
MATLAB | 5 | 0.18 |
PL/SQL | 11 | 0.41 |
Objective-C | 5 | 0.18 |
Scratch | 2 | 0.07 |
COBOL | 2 | 0.07 |
Metal C | 3 | 0.11 |
3) What code editors/IDEs do you use?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Notepad++ | 888 | 25.43 |
PSPad | 726 | 20.79 |
SublimeText | 53 | 1.52 |
Eclipse | 89 | 2.55 |
NetBeans | 83 | 2.38 |
InteliJ | 819 | 23.45 |
VIM | 174 | 4.98 |
Visual Studio | 176 | 5.04 |
PhpStorm | 48 | 1.37 |
Atom | 25 | 0.72 |
Emacs | 202 | 5.79 |
Zend | 35 | 1 |
Xcode | 174 | 4.98 |
4) What is your gender?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Male | 1197 | 99.01 |
Female | 12 | 0.99 |
5) To which age category do you belong?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
21-25 | 13 | 1.08 |
26-30 | 1053 | 87.1 |
31-40 | 112 | 9.26 |
41-50 | 24 | 1.98 |
51-60 | 4 | 0.33 |
61-70 | 3 | 0.25 |
6) What is your highest achieved education?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
No formal education | 2 | 0.17 |
Elementary school | 6 | 0.5 |
High school | 42 | 3.47 |
Bachelor’s degree | 791 | 65.43 |
Master’s degree | 363 | 30.02 |
Ph.D. degree and higher | 5 | 0.41 |
7) On which continent on which do you live?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Africa | 4 | 0.33 |
Antarctica | 2 | 0.16 |
Asia | 22 | 1.82 |
Europe | 803 | 66.42 |
North America | 364 | 30.11 |
Australia | 10 | 0.83 |
South America | 4 | 0.33 |
Results of this software poll are available at https://www.akiosurvey.com/svy/survey-software-development-os-programming-language-ide