Jun 03, 2020 08:00:00

Survey results targeting programmers around the world such as salaries and popularity rankings of programmers by programming language are being released

Stack Overflow , a knowledge community on technologies such as programming and computers, has released the results of a survey of approximately 65,000 programmers around the world. The rankings of various viewpoints such as programming languages that programmers like, programming languages that they usually use, salary rankings by programming language, etc. are released.

The 2020 Developer Survey results are here!-- Stack Overflow Blog
https://stackoverflow.blog/2020/05/27/2020-stack-overflow-developer-survey-results/

The figure below shows the approximate number of respondents by country in the size of a circle, with the largest number of respondents in the United States.

The Stack Overflow survey was conducted in February 2020, and shows the results before each country underwent lockdown due to the effects of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19).

◆The most loved programming language
The most loved by programmers was

Rust , which 86.1% of all said liked. Rust is an open source programming language that has been number one for five consecutive years since a 2016 survey by Stack Overflow. TypeScript , which was close to third place in Python in the 2019 survey , jumped to second place in the 2020 survey, surpassing Python. In addition, Go, which was ranked 10th in the 2019 survey, has moved up significantly to 5th. The lowest level is VBA, a programming language included in the Microsoft Office series. Objective-C and Perl are the worst 3 next.

◆The programming language you want to learn most
A survey of programming languages that programmers think 'I wouldn't normally use but would like to learn in the future' shows that Python gathered votes from 30% of the total and became the top for the fourth consecutive year since the

2017 survey . On the other hand, VBA, Perl, and Objective-C, which were the worst 3 in the beloved programming language ranking, are again in the worst 3.

◆ Most used programming language
After investigating which programming language programmers usually use,

JavaScript was the most used programming language. JavaScript has been at the top of the Stack Overflow survey for eight consecutive years. In addition, Ruby , which was in the top 10 in the 2017 survey, is gradually moving down, overtaking new languages like Go and Kotlin .

◆ Most paid salaried programming language users
A survey of professional programming programmers' usual programming languages and salaries found that, globally, programmers using Perl, Scala , or Go tended to be high-income. It is quite disliked by programmers, and the average Perl salary who was in the lower rank in the ranking of 'most used programming language' shows the top amount as about $ 76,000 (about 8.18 million yen) Suggests that high salaries and lack of technicians may be associated.

In addition, when the survey target was limited to the United States, which had the largest number of respondents to the questionnaire, the salaries of Scala users were the highest.

Details of the survey results by Stack Overflow can be confirmed from the following website.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020
https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020