What Tools Developers Actually Use

http://www.readwriteweb.com/hack/2011/12/infographic-what-tools-develop.php

by Garbage • 15 years ago

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penwwolf• 15 years ago

I don't think RoR is really a "tool"

AndrewDucker• 15 years ago

It's a framework, which is what it's filed under.

yummybear• 15 years ago

Am I the only one who finds something odd about these numbers - 9% are using .NET yet less than 4% are using Visual Studio.NET? My personal observation is something close to 90-100% of .NET developers use VS.NET.

BSousa• 15 years ago

Not really. I also am baffled by django and rails being top, but then eclipse as ide? And Objective-C being below 5% but Xcode 10%.

This just either smells like a load of crap of the survey was done in a very inconsistent manner. (Not giving an option for 'I don't use an IDE' or the likes.

edge173• 15 years ago

Assuming someone was told to do a survey, and didn't care to make sense of the results or doesn't have the background to interpret them... happens in school all the time...

blhack• 15 years ago

I kindof curious how many people use IDEs.

I just write everything in VIM.

dextorious4• 15 years ago

The survey says "the asked 500 leading software developers from around the world".

So, this is more about rock-star programmers and such, not people using .NET/VS in the enterprise. Especially as it talks about companies with <= 100 employees.

Probably people more like the Miguel De Icaza, Jeff Atwood etc types that probably use Vim/Emacs or such to work with .NET.

Even so, so many people using Notepad++? WTF?

mbowcock• 15 years ago

I'd be surprised to see a large number of 'rock star' devs using Eclipse.

xer0• 15 years ago

"Even so, so many people using Notepad++? WTF?"

I've seen more than a handful of really smart developers use notepad, even without the ++. It's always surprising, but there's probably a lesson to learn.

jc4p• 15 years ago

What's wrong with Notepad++? Notepad++ is the Windows equivalent of Coda or TextMate, it's one of the first things I install every time I'm on a Windows machine.

I can get my Notepad++ themes off my source-control and have the exact same look/feel on whatever machine I am, and it has FTP/SFTP, Subversion, and more recently, Git plugins available too.

Oh I probably should say that I don't disagree that the survey is very biased (just look at the sample size), but Notepad++ is one of the only few things on that list I'm not shocked to see.

tomku2• 15 years ago

The whole thing is odd. For example, look at the IDE category as a whole. Aptana is a set of plugins for Eclipse, and Selenium IDE is an Firefox plugin "IDE" for a very specific tool/purpose (writing Selenium tests) rather than a generic coding IDE like the rest. Visual Studio should definitely be in there too, given the numbers for .NET and MSSQL.

I'm also wondering why GitHub isn't somewhere on here. It seems like it'd fit in several categories ("project management" and "bug tracking" to start), and I have a hard time believing that a demographic composed of 53% Git users and 28% Rails devs would have less than 4% using GitHub for either of those purposes.

tel• 15 years ago

My general observation is: if they presented the data as an infographic, the methods are broken.

scott_s3• 15 years ago

I think there is some serious selection bias. In particular, I think they mostly talked to web developers. (Of course, it's also possible that web developers now make up the majority of developers, but I'd like to see a separate study on that.) They show the "industry" breakdown, but 83% are under "technology" which is too generic to tell me anything meaningful.

Ah, they do say the people surveyed are at companies with less than 100 employees, so, yeah, there's some selection bias.

edge173• 15 years ago

Curious if git is commonly used in companies over 100 people.

thurn• 15 years ago

Facebook uses git. Many open source projects with more than 100 contributors do too, of course.

msisk62• 15 years ago

We use git at Rackspace.

quanticle• 15 years ago

Not just web developers. Web developers on Mac OSX. Textmate's massive lead over everything else is proof positive of that.

TillE• 15 years ago

Note also the total lack of Visual Studio. It's not even 5%? C'mon. Even just among web developers, ASP.NET is bigger than that.

corry• 15 years ago

Leaving aside questions about sample size / methodology / etc, here are the big surprises for me:

FRAMEWORKS - CodeIgniter at 6%. I use it for some projects, but I'm surprised that 6% of 'top developers' are still using it too given that it's an older entry in the (very crowded) field of PHP frameworks, AND it's PHP (which everyone loves to hate).

TEXT EDITORS - Nice to see Coda on the list. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, but it's a great product with just the right mix of minimal features for me (syntax highlighting, simple FTP, sane keyboard shortcuts).

3pt14159• 15 years ago

Where is emacs? I'm not expecting it to get #1 or anything, but a very healthy number of devs use it.

CountHackulus• 15 years ago

How did they choose the "500 leading developers"? This seems to be heavily skewed towards web development.

orenmazor• 15 years ago

Version Control: 53% use git, 31% svn, 3% beanstalk?

which of these is not like the other.

infocaptor• 15 years ago

This is not reliable at all. Look at the numbers for Oracle for database.

msisk62• 15 years ago

All the companies they surveyed are less than 100 people. I'm actually surprised it's that high.

wiradikusuma• 15 years ago

I found this infographic worthless. Leading developers? How did they decide that? Minority Java and .NET? What kind of developers are they talking about?

baby• 15 years ago

No dreamweaver for webdevelopping? Gosh I tried everything and I just can't find something better in my opinion.

ruckusing• 15 years ago

Surprising that SQL Server beats out Postgres, especially considering these are developers in companies <100 people.

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