In final 12 months’s Stack Overflow Developer Survey, Docker was the second most used device, behind npm. Within the 2023 survey, it was revealed that Docker has taken the primary slot.
Nonetheless, npm continues to be extra doubtless for use than Docker for these which are nonetheless studying to code, generally with languages which are typically used to study to code, like JavaScript and Python.
By way of instruments builders wish to use the identical know-how once more subsequent 12 months, Docker had nearly double the proportion of respondents than different choices.
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This 12 months, markdown additionally broke into high three async instruments, with 26% of builders utilizing it, behind Jira (52%) and Confluence (34%).
In case you look solely at builders nonetheless studying to code, markdown is within the second slot, behind GitHub Discussions. Solely 13% of these builders use Jira and solely 5% use Confluence.
Phoenix continues to be essentially the most admired internet framework. In 2022 it overcame Svelte to turn out to be most liked, and this 12 months the survey additionally discovered that builders would select to work with it over the three commonest internet frameworks: React, Node.js, and Subsequent.js.
Rust was essentially the most admired language general, with 80% of builders wanting to make use of it once more subsequent 12 months, in comparison with 87% within the 2022 survey.
Studying to code from on-line sources elevated from 70% to 80% this 12 months. Technical documentation, Stack Overflow, and blogs have been the three hottest on-line sources that folks flip to.
Sixty-three p.c of respondents spend not less than half-hour every single day on the lookout for solutions on-line. That is extra doubtless from particular person contributors than individuals managers.
The language that gives the best pay is a brand new addition this 12 months: Zig. These builders make a median wage of $103,611. Final 12 months Clojure and Erlang have been the best paid applied sciences, however this 12 months Clojure noticed a ten% lower in pay and dropped into the fifth slot. Erlang held onto its place at quantity 2, with a median wage this 12 months of $99,492.
Dart and SAS noticed the best enhance in median pay and grew over 20% since final 12 months. In 2023, Dart builders earned a median wage of $55,862 and SAS builders earned a median wage of $81,000.
The price of investing in abilities has risen in 2023 with inflation, however the survey outcomes point out that this hasn’t actually discouraged builders from taking the chance to uplevel.
Stack Overflow additionally discovered that 70% of respondents plan to make use of AI instruments of their growth course of this 12 months, and that 42% of ChatGPT customers wish to attempt Google Bard or Bing AI subsequent 12 months.
