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 | 860 | 35.1 |
Windows 8 | 105 | 4.29 |
Windows 7 | 792 | 32.33 |
Windows Vista | 10 | 0.41 |
Windows XP | 6 | 0.25 |
Linux Mint | 115 | 4.69 |
Debian | 153 | 6.25 |
Ubuntu | 144 | 5.88 |
openSUSE | 13 | 0.53 |
Manjaro | 15 | 0.61 |
Fedora | 115 | 4.69 |
Gentoo | 113 | 4.61 |
Mac OS X | 5 | 0.2 |
macOS | 4 | 0.16 |
2) What programming languages do you use?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Java | 851 | 30.62 |
C | 217 | 7.81 |
C++ | 230 | 8.28 |
C# | 20 | 0.72 |
Python | 36 | 1.29 |
PHP | 55 | 1.98 |
JavaScript | 934 | 33.61 |
Visual Basic .NET | 156 | 5.61 |
Object Pascal | 9 | 0.32 |
Perl | 171 | 6.15 |
Ruby | 13 | 0.47 |
Swift | 11 | 0.4 |
Assembler | 15 | 0.54 |
Go | 8 | 0.29 |
R | 8 | 0.29 |
Visual Basic | 10 | 0.36 |
MATLAB | 6 | 0.22 |
PL/SQL | 12 | 0.43 |
Objective-C | 7 | 0.25 |
Scratch | 3 | 0.11 |
COBOL | 4 | 0.14 |
Metal C | 3 | 0.11 |
3) What code editors/IDEs do you use?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Notepad++ | 894 | 25.37 |
PSPad | 731 | 20.74 |
SublimeText | 56 | 1.59 |
Eclipse | 89 | 2.52 |
NetBeans | 86 | 2.44 |
InteliJ | 823 | 23.35 |
VIM | 175 | 4.97 |
Visual Studio | 178 | 5.05 |
PhpStorm | 50 | 1.42 |
Atom | 27 | 0.77 |
Emacs | 204 | 5.79 |
Zend | 36 | 1.02 |
Xcode | 175 | 4.97 |
4) What is your gender?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Male | 1208 | 98.69 |
Female | 16 | 1.31 |
5) To which age category do you belong?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
21-25 | 17 | 1.39 |
26-30 | 1055 | 86.19 |
31-40 | 116 | 9.48 |
41-50 | 27 | 2.2 |
51-60 | 4 | 0.33 |
61-70 | 5 | 0.41 |
6) What is your highest achieved education?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
No formal education | 2 | 0.16 |
Elementary school | 11 | 0.9 |
High school | 44 | 3.6 |
Bachelor’s degree | 796 | 65.03 |
Master’s degree | 366 | 29.9 |
Ph.D. degree and higher | 5 | 0.41 |
7) On which continent on which do you live?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Africa | 6 | 0.49 |
Antarctica | 2 | 0.16 |
Asia | 24 | 1.96 |
Europe | 810 | 66.18 |
North America | 367 | 29.98 |
Australia | 11 | 0.9 |
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