The JetBrains State of Developer Ecosystem dropped recently and well worth a read if you are involved in the developer space in some way and want to get a sense of how things are trending.

A few things I thought notable were:

1. Rust and Typescript growing in popularity, it seems at the expense of languages like C++ and JavaScript respectively.

2. 91% of developers are male. In 2021 it was 93%. So I guess at that rate it will be 50/50 by 2066 or so!

3. 46% of developers use GitHub Copilot. I suspect the % that admit that to their colleagues might be lower though 😉 In terms of AI, most developers feel it will help them rather than become a threat to their jobs.

4. Three to Five years is the median range of professional coding experience. Curious where they go from that point, management perhaps? In an entirely unrelated note, 73% of developers also have experienced burnout...

5. Top three job incentives for a developer are good hours, good pay and a job in which you feel you can achieve something. There seems to be a gender difference where women value more holidays and societal impact notably more than men.

But there is lots of interesting stuff in the report, its worth flicking through even if its to just challenge our own anecdotal experiences. Though I would love to have seen the results with a by country breakdown to see how that impacts the responses. I also wonder about the kinds of developer that will find the time to answer surveys and if that skews the results in a general direction.