Programming trends

2020 Developper Survey. © Stack Overflow.

On its tenth year of polling developers from all over the world, Stack Overflow received some 65,000 responses to its lengthy questionnaire. This year, the three most-loved languages by programmers are Rust, TypeScript and Python, in that order, the only difference compared to last year being that Python has lost its second place to TypeScript. The most-hated language is still VBA, a Microsoft Visual Basic implementation that hasn’t been updated since 2013 (we’re wondering who the heck is still using it… or is it just long-term remnants of VBA trauma?) As for Web frameworks, ASP.NET Core is still beloved by 70.7% of respondents and Angular.js seems to be dreaded. The most lucrative technologies to master are: Perl, Scala, Go, Rust and Ruby. The top five platforms are Linux, Windows, Docker, AWS, MacOS. Not surprisingly, figures show that the developer community is predominantly male (91.7% compared to 92.1% last year).

⇨ Stack Overflow, “2020 Developper Survey.”