1 year ago

New data on developers and how they do their jobs not only confirms that far more devs work remotely now than before the COVID-19 pandemic but offers a glimpse at which tools they’re using. Overall, 53% of developers surveyed said they had edited code on remote machines.

Upskilling continues to be important to developers, as the study showed that half of all survey participants said they plan to adopt a new programming language.

Survey participants identified — in descending order — Javascript, Python, Java, HTML/CSS and Typescript as their most commonly used programming or markup languages.

Documentation and APIs were the most commonly cited way in which survey participants learned new tools, technologies and programming languages in the past 12 months.