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.
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70% of Devs Using or Will Use AI, Says Stack Overflow Survey
44% of developers said they already use AI tools in their development process, and another 26% plan to do so soon. When this group was asked what specific AI-powered developer tools they use, 55% mentioned GitHub Copilot, while 13% use Tabnine and 5% use Amazon Web Services CodeWhisperer. The other seven tools included in the survey were used by no more than 2%.
Adoption and Developer Pay Do Not Align
Median salaries of developers rose across the board over the last year, driven up by inflation and economic demand. Beyond that, the Stack Overflow findings indicate that usage and learning patterns do not align neatly with actual salaries.
Google’s Flutter Rivals Facebook’s React Native in Dev Use
Twice as many professional developers extensively used Google’s open source cross-platform user interface toolkit Flutter in the last year.
Developer Dissatisfaction Doubles
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.
Developers Are Ethical But Not Responsible?
73% of developers said they are more excited about AI’s possibilities rather than worried about its dangers.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Are woman devs pigeon-holed?
No matter how you look at gender, the percentage of women in IT varies depending on the study. Yet, in some ways, it doesn’t matter if the figure is 5 percent or 25 percent, the statistic still obscure hard truths. For example, when women join a programming team, […]
Stream Me Up to Microservices
JVM developers are interested in data stream processing technologies, but that “interest” is red hot if they are deploying microservices. According to Lightbend’s recent survey of JVM developers, 18 percent use Kafka in production, 13 percent use Akka Streams, and 12 percent use Spark Streaming. […]
More Confirmation of the DevOps Revolution
When covering the container ecosystem, vendors repeatedly tell us that their target audience is DevOps. Although we have long thought of DevOps as more of a process, there is more and more data that says otherwise. The recent Stack Overflow survey saw the percentage of developers identifying […]