Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 Overview for .NET Developers

20 March 2018 (0)

The 2018 Stack Overflow Developer Survey was recently released.

This article summarizes some interesting points that .NET developers may find interesting, in additional to some other general items of potential  interest.

.NET Points of Interest

  • C# is the 8th most popular programming language among professional developers at 35.3%.
  • TypeScript is the 12th most popular language among profession developers at 18.3%
  • VB.NET is the 18th most popular programming language at 6.9%.
  • .NET Core is the 4th most popular framework among professional developers at 27.2%.
  • SQL Server is the 2nd most used database among professional developers  at 41.6%.
  • Windows Desktop or Server is the 2nd most developed-for platform among professional developers  at 35.2%.
  • Azure is the 10th most developed-for platform among professional developers at 11.4%.
  • TypeScript is the 4th most loved language at 67%.
  • C# is the 8th most loved language.
  • VB.NET is the 4th most dreaded language
  • .NET Core is the 5th most loved framework, the 8th most dreaded framework, and the 5th most wanted framework.
  • Azure is the 5th most loved database (Tables, CosmosDB, SQL, etc.)
  • SQL Server is the 10th most loved database.
  • Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio are the top two most popular development environments respectively (among all respondents).
  • Professional developers primarily use Windows (49.4%) as their development operating system.
  • F# is associated with the highest salary worldwide, with C# 16th highest.
  • .NET development technologies cluster around C#, Azure, .NET Core, SQL Server etc.

General Points of Interest

  • 52.7% of developers spend 9-12 hours per day on a computer.
  • 37.4% of developers don’t typically exercise.
  • 93.1% of professional developers identify as male.
  • 74.3% of professional developers identify as white or of European descent.
  • 85.9% of professional developers use Agile development methodologies.
  • 88.4% of professional developers use Git for version control.

The survey offers a wealth of additional information and you can find the full set of results over at Stack Overflow.

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