Thoughts About Stack Overflow’s Annual Developer Survey


Every year, Stack Overflow runs a developer survey about technology, work, community, and more. This year’s results include 65,437 responses from developers around the world.

The results are biased towards the kinds of developers who use Stack Overflow – 76% of the respondents reported that they have a Stack Overflow account. I would guess that it’s nowhere near a perfect picture of all developers worldwide, but let’s just focus on the fact that it does represent how over 65,000 developers feel – and that alone is useful enough to give you a picture of what’s happening in at least a lot of