Technology can change quickly. But it’s also true that some things never change. JavaScript has been the most popular programming language on GitHub since 2012, for example. But whether things shift every month, or things remain constant, it’s important to see what’s actually happening. It helps us develop the content you need to learn. And more importantly, it allows you to better understand the world in which you’re working. That means you can make the right decisions about your professional life.
That’s why we’ve launched this year’s Skill Up survey. We want you to tell us what it’s like to be a software developer today.
Read on to find out 5 of the most important things we want we want to find out in this year’s survey:
What is the most popular programming language in 2018?
According to Stack Overflow’s recent survey report, JavaScript was one of the more popular programming languages, with around 71% of professional developers using JavaScript.
We think that this trend will continue and we’ll see JavaScript come out on top along with Python – which has become increasingly popular these past few years. However, you’re more than welcome to prove us wrong…
How do software developers learn new technical skills?
With more than 150,000 developers visiting our online learning platform each week, we think our survey results will show that most developers set aside time each week to learn new technical skills. It will be interesting to see the proportion of developers who spend time each week to that of those who set aside time each month.
In their survey report, Stack Overflow found that more than 60% of developers visit Stack overflow almost every day. That signals there’s a definite appetite – and need to learn skills and solve new problems.
What are the most commonly used tools, libraries, and frameworks?
We know how popular the big players such as Node and Angular that make up half of the MEAN stack are so we won’t be surprised to see them coming out on top along with React and TensorFlow.
Stack overflow found TensorFlow to be the most loved tool – around 73% of developers expressed a lot of enthusiasm.
[box type=”note” align=”” class=”” width=””]Also read about the Top 10 Machine learning tools to watch in 2018![/box]
What do developers think will be the most valuable thing to learn this year?
We’ve seen Python grow in popularity and JavaScript remains at the number 1 top spot for the most commonly used programming language but what will be the most valuable thing to learn in the next 12 months?
Are you a developer?
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