JavaScript – Lawrence Hecht

developer unemployment at highest level since 2019 accompanied by rise in self employed and contractors

July 27, 2024February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Salary Pressures, Not AI, Vex Developers, Says Stack Overflow

Professional developers’ adoption of AI tools in the development process has risen rapidly, going from 44% in 2023 to 62% in 2024.

java, kotlin, and rust usage jumped from 2020 to 2022

December 9, 2022February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Java Usage Keeps Climbing, According to New Survey

Just under half of the active developers worldwide (49%) reported that they use Java, compared with 39% who said so in Q3 2020 — an increase of 26%.

bubble chart: content management system change in usage and satisfaction

October 7, 2021February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

What If All Frontend Developers Were Jamstack Developers?

Almost twice as many respondents still use the traditional WordPress implementation as opposed to the headless version.

package manager used, importance of different packages for multiple environments

June 9, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Managing JavaScript Packages with npm and Yarn

That being said, it is notable that Yarn users are much more likely to care about managing packages across multiple environments.

download records for open soruce components: Java and JavaScript

July 21, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

JavaScript Inflection Point vs Java

With Node.js’s use on the server side, comparing JavaScript and Java is no longer apples vs oranges. With that context, it is noteworthy that last year the number of npm (Javascript) packages downloaded surpassed components in the maven (Java) components. According to Sonatype’s 2017 State of […]

2017: 21% of web developers prioritize angular vs 9% for React

April 7, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

React vs. Angular Take 2

React is a library with Facebook roots. Angular is a Google-spawned framework. There is abundant analysis comparing them and, in general, it shows that Angular trails, with Vue.js getting significant buzz. Yet, since AngularJS 2 was a significant rewrite, you should not conflate declining use of the original Angular with […]

Correlated Technologies: focus on TypeScript

March 24, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

TypeScript, TypeScript, TypeScript

We’ve been actively covering TypeScript but it wasn’t until recently that we saw stats showing just how popular it is. Stack Overflow added this JavaScript superset to its Developer Survey 2017, and boom — it is being used by 9.5 percent of developers, making it the ninth most used language […]