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Lawrence Hecht

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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%.

size of programming language communities in Q1 2021
May 13, 2021February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Snyk’s FossID Buy to Boost C++ Compliance for Embedded Devs

Half of C++ developers don’t use the cloud to deploy updates.

Two-thirds of developers that don't contribute to open source still expect companies to support the open source community
May 13, 2020February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Non-Contributing Developers Expect Companies to Support Open Source

Companies should encourage its developers to spend part of the workday contributing to open source whether or not a project is managed internally by the company itself.

platforms targeted by mobile developers
January 24, 2019February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Microsoft Mobile Developers Moving to Generic Browsers

Over the last two years, the percentage of developers working on Android and iOS apps declined slightly while those targeting mobile browsers rose by 43 percent.

Do you or your team use models to generate predictions?
September 20, 2018February 14, 2025Snippet of The New Stack article

Machine Learning Developers Don’t Predict

A majority of developers involved with machine learning do not use models to generate predictions.

usage and awareness of different serverless computing platforms
March 31, 2018February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update, Snippet of The New Stack article

Serverless Now Rivals VMs Delivered as a Service

In the first quarter of 2018, only 20 percent of backend developers surveyed by SlashData utilized an on-demand VM service, down from 46 percent in the third quarter of 2016.

geographic distribution of developers
July 7, 2017February 14, 2025Published in The New Stack Update

Asian Developers Are Underrepresented in the Data

GitHub and Stack Overflow do not represent a true picture of the world’s developers because not everyone uses these sites. Twenty-one percent of active GitHub users are in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and a 50,000+ person StackOverflow survey reported 22 percent of respondents coming from […]

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