Developer productivity is an ongoing concern, but not every pain point lasts forever. Users of open source runtimes are spending less time managing dependencies and less concerned with license issues. We speculate that is because deployment automation and security scanning software is helping in these areas.
In ActiveState’s “2019 Developer Survey: Open Source Runtimes,” those saying they almost never spend time managing open source dependencies rose from 25% in 2018 to 38% in 2019. Even more don’t think about license compliance as 73% almost never spend time on it.
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