2026 Developer Research Report

Hello, our dearest DZone Community!

Last year, we asked you for your thoughts on emerging and evolving software development trends, your day-to-day as devs, and workflows that work best — all to shape our 2026 Community Research Report. The goal is simple: to better understand our community and provide the right content and resources developers need to support their career journeys.

After crunching some numbers and piecing the puzzle together, alas, it is in (and we have to warn you, it's quite a handful)!

This report summarizes the survey responses we collected from December 9, 2025, to January 27 of this year, and includes an overview of the DZone community, the stacks developers are currently using, the rising trend in AI adoption, year-over-year highlights, and so much more.

Here are a few takeaways worth mentioning: 

• AI use climbs this year, with 67.3% of readers now adopting it in their workflows.
• While most use multiple languages in their developer stacks, Python takes the top spot.
• Readers visit DZone primarily for practical learning and problem-solving.

These are just a small glimpse of what's waiting in our report, made possible by you. You can read the rest of it below.

2026 Community Research Report

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We really appreciate you lending your time to help us improve your experience and nourish DZone into a better go-to resource every day. Here's to new learnings and even newer ideas!

— Your DZone Content and Community team