Original link: 2025 Developer Survey / SO.
This years survey is very AI centric. Almost everyone 84% use AI tools. Positive sentiment to AI has dropped from 70% to 60% since last year. The majority do not (yet) use AI agents.
VS Code dominate IDE/editor with VS, Notepad++, IntelliJ IDEA and VIM far behind.
Programming language order is JavaScript, Python, Java, C#, C++, C, PHP, Go, Rust, Kotlin, Lua, Ruby, Dart, Swift, R, Groovy, VB.NET, VBA and Perl.
Database order is PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite and MS SQLServer.
Server side web order is node.js, ASP.NET Core, FastAPI, SpingBoot, Flask, ASP.NET, Django, Laravel and Ruby on Rails.