The results of the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 are out. Based on the responses from 56,033 developers, we are able to get a good idea of the most popular technologies used by developers. Just like last year, JavaScript topped the list of most-used technologies once again, followed by SQL Server, Java, and C#.
Stack Overflow serves as a platform where developers share their work and ask questions related to their code. Every year, the website conducts a survey with thousands of developers to get an idea about the current scenario of the global technology, making it one of the most comprehensive developer surveys ever conducted.
In the 2016 Stack Overflow survey, 56,033 developers from 173 countries participated. They were asked 45 questions covering a wide range of topics. In this article, we'll look at some interesting findings:
In January 2016, over 45 million users opened Stack Overflow in web browser to ask a question or answer something a fellow developer asked. The majority of respondents identified themselves as full-stack developers, at 28%, followed by back-end web developers at 12.2%.
About 11.4% of participants call themselves students, followed by 8.4% of developers who engage in Android, iOS, Windows Phone, and multi-platform programming.
Moving on to the most-used technologies, JavaScript continues to rule the web. It is still the most popular programming language in web development with 55.4% of people saying they write code in JavaScript. This extremely popular programming language is followed by: SQL Server (49.1%), Java (36.3%), C# (30.9%), PHP (25.9%), and C++ (19.4%).
If we talk about the most trending technologies on Stack Overflow, React, Spark, and Swift rule the charts, while Node.js and AngularJS are on the rise.
