Hot off the Press: Developers’ needs due to COVID-19, Open Source, Languageds, DevOps and more
What do developers value in open source? How have their needs changed due to COVID-19? The 19th Developer Economics global survey wave...
Developer Economy & Software Developer Trends
What is changing in the developer economy, and what do the latest software developer trends mean in practice? This collection explores shifts in the global developer community, new ways of building software and the technologies shaping developers’ work. Read accessible explainers on developer growth, emerging builder communities, annual trends and the findings behind headline industry changes. For the underlying population estimates and methodology, explore SlashData’s global developer population research.
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The changing face of developer communities
How has the developer population evolved over the past years?
How do developers perceive themselves? Are they introverts or extroverts?
The data from our latest Developer Economics survey give all the answers in the recently published State of the Developer Nation Q2 2019...
Gender Wars
The technology industry often takes credit for the changing world of work. One example is the model of remote employees working as...
The largest developer community: a critical view
When developers evaluate new technologies, one of the elements they often look at is the size and strength of the community surrounding...
Augmented Reality: Developers experiment with the next mass market opportunity
Emerging technologies are often a hype haven for media pundits. All the talk of Augmented Reality has been no exception and as with...
The Winners Are Here – Developers’ Choice Awards 2018 Digital Edition
Google, Mozilla, Unreal, Unity, Amazon, and Microsoft Win SlashData’s Developers’ Choice Awards 2018 Digital Edition We’re excited to...
Machine Learning is Changing Developer Nation and the World
Breakthroughs and advancement in machine learning (ML) models, techniques, frameworks, and applications are having a growing influence on...
Getting users to pay for things remains the biggest challenge for the app developer
More than half of mobile developers are living in “app poverty”: making less than $500 a month from their apps. We’ve produced an...
What gets desktop developers out of bed in the morning?
Despite all the hype around the death of the PC and the enormous amount of media attention focused on mobile, cloud and IoT, the humble...
If there were 100 Developers in the world
[UPDATE: The survey is now closed -Enjoy the infographic] Have you ever asked yourselves what would the world be like if there were only...
Every year software developers get less experienced
That might sound odd, but it’s one of many conclusions draw from our biannual study, and presented in our (free) State of the Developer...
