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 | 869 | 35.07 |
Windows 8 | 107 | 4.32 |
Windows 7 | 794 | 32.04 |
Windows Vista | 13 | 0.52 |
Windows XP | 9 | 0.36 |
Linux Mint | 115 | 4.64 |
Debian | 154 | 6.22 |
Ubuntu | 145 | 5.85 |
openSUSE | 15 | 0.61 |
Manjaro | 17 | 0.69 |
Fedora | 115 | 4.64 |
Gentoo | 114 | 4.6 |
Mac OS X | 7 | 0.28 |
macOS | 4 | 0.16 |
2) What programming languages do you use?
Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Java | 857 | 30.48 |
C | 218 | 7.75 |
C++ | 232 | 8.25 |
C# | 21 | 0.75 |
Python | 36 | 1.28 |
PHP | 56 | 1.99 |
JavaScript | 936 | 33.29 |
Visual Basic .NET | 159 | 5.65 |
Object Pascal | 9 | 0.32 |
Perl | 173 | 6.15 |
Ruby | 14 | 0.5 |
Swift | 13 | 0.46 |
Assembler | 15 | 0.53 |
Go | 11 | 0.39 |
R | 9 | 0.32 |
Visual Basic | 11 | 0.39 |
MATLAB | 7 | 0.25 |
PL/SQL | 14 | 0.5 |
Objective-C | 8 | 0.29 |
Scratch | 4 | 0.14 |
COBOL | 5 | 0.18 |
Metal C | 4 | 0.14 |
3) What code editors/IDEs do you use?
Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Notepad++ | 901 | 25.36 |
PSPad | 733 | 20.63 |
SublimeText | 56 | 1.58 |
Eclipse | 92 | 2.59 |
NetBeans | 88 | 2.48 |
InteliJ | 825 | 23.22 |
VIM | 176 | 4.95 |
Visual Studio | 183 | 5.15 |
PhpStorm | 50 | 1.41 |
Atom | 30 | 0.84 |
Emacs | 206 | 5.8 |
Zend | 36 | 1.01 |
Xcode | 177 | 4.98 |
4) What is your gender?
Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Male | 1217 | 98.22 |
Female | 22 | 1.78 |
5) To which age category do you belong?
Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
15-20 | 9 | 0.73 |
21-25 | 17 | 1.37 |
26-30 | 1056 | 85.23 |
31-40 | 118 | 9.52 |
41-50 | 28 | 2.26 |
51-60 | 5 | 0.4 |
61-70 | 6 | 0.49 |
6) What is your highest achieved education?
Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
No formal education | 5 | 0.4 |
Elementary school | 14 | 1.13 |
High school | 49 | 3.96 |
Bachelor’s degree | 797 | 64.33 |
Master’s degree | 369 | 29.78 |
Ph.D. degree and higher | 5 | 0.4 |
7) On which continent on which do you live?
Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Africa | 7 | 0.57 |
Antarctica | 5 | 0.4 |
Asia | 25 | 2.02 |
Europe | 819 | 66.1 |
North America | 368 | 29.7 |
Australia | 11 | 0.89 |
South America | 4 | 0.32 |
Results of this software poll are available at https://www.akiosurvey.com/svy/survey-software-development-os-programming-language-ide