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2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Re: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by ollien »

flufluflufluffy wrote: post #46
ollien wrote: post #41

Can anyone make sense of the sankey chart under "Developers at all levels are exploring the evolving AI landscape through Stack Overflow"? How does "Large Language Model" flow into "Tailwind CSS 4"?

I think it was made by an AI itself I joke, but I think it’s depicting relative proportions of how many people who were “interested in” Gemini are now “interested in” other things and how different subgroups’ “interested in” thing changed over time. So there was a sizable group that became interested in Tailwind at one point

As in, Gemini users are interested in Tailwind? Is this suggesting that Gemini is suggesting tailwind, and people are using it? It's very weird

Re: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by Const-me »

wing-_-nuts wrote: post #22

C# as popular and commonly used as java? Hmm either I'm woefully behind the times, most java devs aren't answering SO surveys, or the data is wrong. Then again the fact that C# is used in indie game dev probably gives it a serious boost in the 'evangelical user' category. It is a nice language, I just find java to be far more used in industry. Also, the editors? I'm sorry I've simply never gotten vsCode when jetbrain…

I believe Java is more popular for enterprise and web apps.

.NET is widely used for videogames (games made with Unity, Godot, Unigine engines, also internal tools and game servers), desktop software, embedded software. Java is rarely used for these things, hence the results of that survey.

Re: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by xigoi »

> Stack Overflow is a frequent destination for information. A strong majority (82%) visit at least a few times per month, with 25% visiting daily or more often.

A survey among visitors of a tobacco shop shows that 82% of people smoke frequently.

Re: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by politelemon »

chistev wrote: post #4

How is it that Windows always dominate these Stack Overflow developer surveys, but people talk like Mac is the one that's ubiquitous among devs? And I hate these big accept cookies pop ups or whatever they are called that impede use of a website unless you accept. I couldn't find an option to reject all cookies.

It's simple and observed over a number of years. HN is an echo chamber. Mac users drown out and shout down other users here. Other users go elsewhere for discourse. As a case in point look at the other replies to your comment.

On a separate note it's sad to see that Ubuntu has fallen behind.

Re: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by falcor84 »

bluefirebrand wrote: post #18
gdhkgdhkvff wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only ~14% of respondents had 10 years dev experience. One thing I did find funny though was this survey found that devs overwhelmingly visit stackoverflow aka the site that puts the survey out found that so many people that use the site, use the site.

> And 55% were >10 years dev experience This doesn't mean they aren't Juniors though

It does. Whatever they are, they aren't junior developers any more. As a hiring manager, I wouldn't hire a dev with >10 years experience into a junior role - if they're still at junior level, it's not that they're a junior, it's that they're unable to progress, which is a whole different issue.

Re: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by ASalazarMX »

lenerdenator wrote: post #13
biggestfan wrote: post #12

"49,000+" makes this the least responses the survey has gotten since 2016 ("over fifty thousand"), every year in between has been in the 65-100k range. Seems as though enthusiasm around SO has diminished significantly over the past year. My guess is that pro-AI devs have abandoned the site, and anti-AI devs are upset with their collaboration with AI companies.

GitHub Copilot and Cline are significantly less condescending.

If SO disappeared, I wonder what effect it would have in the training of LLMs as languages and tooling continue to evolve.

Re: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results

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Post by ASalazarMX »

hu3 wrote: post #17
biggestfan wrote: post #12

"49,000+" makes this the least responses the survey has gotten since 2016 ("over fifty thousand"), every year in between has been in the 65-100k range. Seems as though enthusiasm around SO has diminished significantly over the past year. My guess is that pro-AI devs have abandoned the site, and anti-AI devs are upset with their collaboration with AI companies.

I can repeat the same question to AI all day and it is happy to help me.

Which is something you shouldn't ever do to a human. SO made you search and think before posting, while AI trains people to outsource thinking.

For all its failings, SO strived for a very high signal-to-noise ratio, and it achieved it.

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