Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Transforming Information Into Knowledge
Only 35% of these engineers responsible for developer productivity and/or experience actually follow and stay informed of the latest trends and discussions related to developer experience and developer productivity.
AI-assisted development will challenge developers as they review the quality of the code generated and integrate tools into their workflows. There is concern that 1) an increase in AI-generated code actually increases developers’ workload because it requires manual review, and 2) inexperienced developers won’t be able to identify when AI spits out bad code.
Professional developers’ adoption of AI tools in the development process has risen rapidly, going from 44% in 2023 to 62% in 2024.
51% believe AI-powered code generation will increase demand for professional software developers. However, given the opportunity, 56% of respondents would let an AI assistant write code comments and documentation. In contrast, only 17% would delegate the writing of code to an AI assistant.
Twenty-nine percent of engineers surveyed by LeadDev and Swarmia said they don’t know enough about Google’s much-hyped DevOps success measures to say if they’re effective or not.
Overall, developers in the survey were using an average of 5.4 of the 36 languages that researchers asked about. Survey participants identified — in descending order — JavaScript, Python, Java, HTML/CSS and Typescript as their most commonly used programming or markup languages.
Organizations are twice as likely to have a successful digital platform if event-driven architecture (EDA) is used to build that platform.
While WebAssembly developers are extremely fond of Rust, there is a lot of room to grow among developers that want to compile other languages.
Computationally intensive tasks are usually not done in-browser.
Backend developers can now be considered as valuable, if not more, than frontend devs.
Developer job dissatisfaction more than doubled, with 24% being at least slightly dissatisfied, up from 11% when the same question was asked a year ago.
