 |
VOOZH | about |
|
VOOZH | about |
We’re so glad you’re here. You can expect all the best TNS content to arrive Monday through Friday to keep you on top of the news and at the top of your game.
Check your inbox for a confirmation email where you can adjust your preferences and even join additional groups.
Follow TNS on your favorite social media networks.
Become a TNS follower on LinkedIn.
Check out the latest featured and trending stories while you wait for your first TNS newsletter.
Java may not be the most cloud-friendly of languages, but that hasn’t slowed down its usage, according to results from SlashData’s “State of the Developer Nation” report for the third quarter of 2022.
Just under half of the active developers worldwide (49%) reported that they use Java, compared with 39% who said so in Q3 2020 — an increase of 26%.
Other languages seeing noteworthy increases in the survey since Q3 2020 include:
The survey reached more than 26,000 participants in 163 countries around the world and was conducted from June through August, according to Slash Data, an analyst of the global developer community.
Two other studies confirm Java’s strength. According to Tidelift’s “2022 Open Source Software Supply Chain Survey Report,” 49% of open source developers think their organization relies on Java, up from 42% in 2020. The report also showed that the largest organizations were more like to rely on Java while the smaller ones tended toward JavaScript.
Financial services organizations are extraordinarily tied to Java. The “State of Open Source in Financial Services” reports that 50% of repositories associated with financial services developers use Java, while only 11% of all GitHub projects use Java.
One language that saw no noticeable increase in usage this year is Dart, which stayed constant at 6% usage over 2021 in the Slash Data study.
At first glance, this seems to contradict the assertion made in The New Stack by Fabrice Bellingard, vice president of product at SonarSource, that there is growing interest in Dart and Flutter for mobile. So, we looked at to Stack Overflow’s annual “Developer Survey” to get a second opinion. It turns out that the developers surveyed by Stack Overflow in 2022 also use Dart at the same 6% level.
Where Dart continues to have buzz is among developers that work on mobile projects, with 27% of the 7,634 mobile developers surveyed by Stack Overflow using the language, up from 24% in the 2021 survey. Among mobile developers, the use of the development framework Flutter rose from 27% in 2021 to 30% in 2022, an 11% increase. However, among all the developers, Flutter usage fell less than a percentage point to 13% as compared over the last year.
