The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/

by dayanruben • 5 years ago

25 13 5 years ago

k__3• 5 years ago

Interesting, most respondents were backend devs, and still JavaScript was most popular.

adevx2• 5 years ago

I've been writing my backends in TypeScript for years now. This after having written C#, Java, Python and PHP backends. Dabbled a bit in Go but settled on Node.js / TypeScript. It may not be perfect, but sharing interfaces and code with the frontend and having a single language has been a huge productivity boost.

k__3• 5 years ago

I used Pulumi IaC with TypeScript, and saw the same benefit.

Sharing interfaces between IaC and backend is pretty nice.

Lunrtick• 5 years ago

I'm currently loving FastAPI and Sqlalchemy, but I have been looking for TypeScript equivalents - TS is such a nice language to work with.

What libraries are you using? I haven't found anything that seems to match the easy OpenAPI schema generation and validation that FastAPI and Pydantic provide.

karmakaze• 5 years ago

Given this, I'm surprised that APIs wasn't a category for what's being developed and likely got lumped into Websites.

Zababa4• 5 years ago

Maybe that's due to lots of fullstack devs who will use javascript no matter what?

k__3• 5 years ago

Can't blame them.

I used it for frontend, APIs, mobile, IoT, IaC, and games.

Quite versatile language

Zababa4• 5 years ago

A few interesting points:

- Rust is now more popular than Scala as a primary language

- No mention of Clojure in "primary programming languages", no F# either.

- MacOS is the least used development environment between the big 3.

- France uses PHP the most. That's something I always believed, but it's nice to have data on it.

- 47% of respondants cook for themselves. I'd like to see a breakdown by country of this one.

908B64B1972• 5 years ago

- MacOS is the least used development environment between the big 3.

What's important here is if it's used by the developers that matters. Mind share can mean more than market share.

Zababa4• 5 years ago

What do you mean by "the developers that matters"? What makes you believe than the mind share is different than the market share?

The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

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