This year, we're not just collecting data; we're reflecting on the last year of questions, answers, hallucinations, job changes, tech stacks, memory allocations, models, systems and agents—together.
In March, over 1,000 developers and technologists gave us insights into what they think about open source and the role it plays with AI.
This year, technologies such as JavaScript and PostgreSQL remain most popular, Rust and Markdown remain most admired, developers are most frustrated by technical debt at work, and they don’t see AI as a threat to their jobs.
The complex relationship of give-and-take in the knowledge journey is untangled in the results from the latest Stack Overflow Knows survey.
We asked when and how often CodeGen tools fall short, what challenges developers face with these tools, and what they are doing with all of the free time these tools purport to offer.
This year we are asking familiar questions about your experience, but also have some new questions about what embedded programming technology you are using and what AI ethical responsibilities are most important to you.
Both new talent and late-career developers are more likely to be looking.
The tech that's hot or not, and how work is changing.
Salaries for developers surged over the past few years, but those gains weren't even distributed globally.
We want to know about all the technology that makes you swoon and scoff.
Why open source is the model for every emerging tech out there.
The Most Loved languages are those that appeal to veteran developers.
Money gets people to leave their jobs, but it won't always make them stay.
