Survey - Software development - Survey results
Propose of this survey is to capture what are the most popular development operating systems, programming languages and code editors/IDEs for groups based on gender, age, education and residence of developer.
1) What operating system do you use on your developer’s machine?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Windows 10 | 874 | 35.09 |
Windows 8 | 108 | 4.34 |
Windows 7 | 795 | 31.91 |
Windows Vista | 15 | 0.6 |
Windows XP | 10 | 0.4 |
Linux Mint | 116 | 4.66 |
Debian | 154 | 6.18 |
Ubuntu | 146 | 5.86 |
openSUSE | 16 | 0.64 |
Manjaro | 17 | 0.68 |
Fedora | 115 | 4.62 |
Gentoo | 114 | 4.58 |
Mac OS X | 7 | 0.28 |
macOS | 4 | 0.16 |
2) What programming languages do you use?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Java | 859 | 30.37 |
C | 218 | 7.71 |
C++ | 233 | 8.24 |
C# | 22 | 0.78 |
Python | 37 | 1.31 |
PHP | 56 | 1.98 |
JavaScript | 938 | 33.17 |
Visual Basic .NET | 160 | 5.66 |
Object Pascal | 10 | 0.35 |
Perl | 173 | 6.12 |
Ruby | 15 | 0.53 |
Swift | 15 | 0.53 |
Assembler | 15 | 0.53 |
Go | 11 | 0.39 |
R | 10 | 0.35 |
Visual Basic | 12 | 0.42 |
MATLAB | 7 | 0.25 |
PL/SQL | 15 | 0.53 |
Objective-C | 8 | 0.28 |
Scratch | 5 | 0.18 |
COBOL | 5 | 0.18 |
Metal C | 4 | 0.14 |
3) What code editors/IDEs do you use?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Notepad++ | 904 | 25.35 |
PSPad | 734 | 20.58 |
SublimeText | 58 | 1.63 |
Eclipse | 94 | 2.64 |
NetBeans | 88 | 2.47 |
InteliJ | 825 | 23.13 |
VIM | 177 | 4.96 |
Visual Studio | 186 | 5.22 |
PhpStorm | 50 | 1.4 |
Atom | 30 | 0.84 |
Emacs | 206 | 5.78 |
Zend | 36 | 1.01 |
Xcode | 178 | 4.99 |
4) What is your gender?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Male | 1222 | 98.23 |
Female | 22 | 1.77 |
5) To which age category do you belong?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
15-20 | 9 | 0.72 |
21-25 | 17 | 1.37 |
26-30 | 1059 | 85.13 |
31-40 | 120 | 9.65 |
41-50 | 28 | 2.25 |
51-60 | 5 | 0.4 |
61-70 | 6 | 0.48 |
6) What is your highest achieved education?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
No formal education | 5 | 0.4 |
Elementary school | 15 | 1.21 |
High school | 49 | 3.94 |
Bachelor’s degree | 799 | 64.23 |
Master’s degree | 371 | 29.82 |
Ph.D. degree and higher | 5 | 0.4 |
7) On which continent on which do you live?








Option ᐃ | Count ᐁ | % ᐁ |
Africa | 7 | 0.56 |
Antarctica | 5 | 0.4 |
Asia | 25 | 2.01 |
Europe | 820 | 65.92 |
North America | 372 | 29.9 |
Australia | 11 | 0.89 |
South America | 4 | 0.32 |
Results of this software poll are available at https://www.akiosurvey.com/svy/survey-software-development-os-programming-language-ide