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The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

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Re: The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

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Post by adevx »

k__ wrote: post #2

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

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.

Re: The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

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Post by k__ »

adevx wrote: post #3
k__ wrote: post #2

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

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.

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

Sharing interfaces between IaC and backend is pretty nice.

Re: The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

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Post by Zababa »

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.

Re: The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

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Post by 908B64B197 »

Zababa wrote: post #7

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.

> - 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.

Re: The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

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Post by k__ »

Zababa wrote: post #6
k__ wrote: post #2

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

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

Can't blame them.

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

Quite versatile language

Re: The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021

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Post by Lunrtick »

adevx wrote: post #3
k__ wrote: post #2

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

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.

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.

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