{"id":123474,"date":"2015-04-09T08:59:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T06:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=123474"},"modified":"2015-04-09T09:00:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T07:00:28","slug":"what-software-developers-really-like-and-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/123474-what-software-developers-really-like-and-hate.html","title":{"rendered":"What software developers really like, and hate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stack Overflow has released the results of its 2015 developer survey, which were based on responses from 26,086 people from 157 countries.<\/p>\n<p>According to Stack Overflow, it conducted the 2015 developer survey to understand their software developer community.<\/p>\n<p>Stack Overflow highlighted that the results are not unbiased: &#8220;Like the results of any survey, they are skewed by selection bias, language bias, and probably a few other biases.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Despite the &#8220;biased&#8221; results, it provides insight into the global software development community.<\/p>\n<p>The full results are available on the <a title=\"Developer survey\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/research\/developer-survey-2015\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey page<\/strong><\/a>. Here are some of the highlights.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Highest number of developers per capita<\/h3>\n<p>The survey revealed that Luxembourg has the highest number of developers per 1,000 people, while Somalia had the lowest number.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123476\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Countries-with-most-developers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123476\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123476\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Countries-with-most-developers.jpg\" alt=\"Countries with most developers\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Countries with most developers<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Gender of software developers<\/h3>\n<p>The survey showed the vast majority of software developers are male.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur internal stats suggest the imbalance isn&#8217;t quite as severe as the survey results make it seem, but there&#8217;s no doubt everyone who codes needs to be more proactive welcoming women into the field,\u201d Stack Overflow said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123478\" style=\"width: 573px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Software-developer-gender.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123478\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123478\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Software-developer-gender.jpg\" alt=\"Software developer gender\" width=\"563\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Software developer gender<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Software developer education<\/h3>\n<p>The Stack Overflow 2015 developer survey revealed that most coders are self-taught.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123480\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Software-developer-education.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123480\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Software-developer-education.jpg\" alt=\"Software developer education\" width=\"443\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Software-developer-education.jpg 443w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Software-developer-education-420x400.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Software developer education<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most popular technologies<\/h3>\n<p>Javascript is the most popular technology, followed by SQL and Java.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more things change, the more likely it is those things are written in JavaScript with NotePad++ on a Windows machine (theme: dark) using Git, and tabs instead of spaces,\u201d Stack Overflow joked.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123482\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-popular-technologies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123482\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-popular-technologies.jpg\" alt=\"Most popular technologies\" width=\"390\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-popular-technologies.jpg 390w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-popular-technologies-365x400.jpg 365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most popular technologies<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most loved technologies<\/h3>\n<p>Swift, C++11, and Rust were named the most loved technologies in the survey.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123484\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-loved.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123484\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123484\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-loved.jpg\" alt=\"Most loved technologies\" width=\"437\" height=\"367\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123484\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most loved technologies<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most dreaded technologies<\/h3>\n<p>Salesforce, Visual Basic, and WordPress were the most dreaded technologies in the survey.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123486\" style=\"width: 482px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-dreaded.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123486\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123486\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-dreaded.jpg\" alt=\"Most dreaded technologies\" width=\"472\" height=\"376\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most dreaded technologies<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Most wanted technologies<\/h3>\n<p>Android, Javascript, and Python were the most wanted technologies in the Stack Overflow 2015 developer survey.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123488\" style=\"width: 319px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-wanted-technologies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123488\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123488\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-wanted-technologies.jpg\" alt=\"Most wanted technologies\" width=\"309\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most wanted technologies<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Developer occupations<\/h3>\n<p>The survey provided respondents with a list of 24 common developer types, with\u00a0full-stack web developer the most common occupation.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123490\" style=\"width: 407px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Occupation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123490\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123490\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Occupation.jpg\" alt=\"Occupation\" width=\"397\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Occupation.jpg 397w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Occupation-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123490\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Occupation<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Job satisfaction<\/h3>\n<p>76% of software developers said they were satisfied at work \u2013 much higher than normal employees.<\/p>\n<p>Executives are 16% more satisfied than average. Product managers are generally the least satisfied with their jobs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_123492\" style=\"width: 428px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Job-satisfaction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123492\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123492\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Job-satisfaction.jpg\" alt=\"Job satisfaction\" width=\"418\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123492\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Job satisfaction<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_123494\" style=\"width: 558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-satisfied.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123494\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123494\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Most-satisfied.jpg\" alt=\"Most satisfied\" width=\"548\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123494\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Most satisfied<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_123496\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Least-satisfied.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-123496\" class=\"size-full wp-image-123496\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Least-satisfied.jpg\" alt=\"Least satisfied\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-123496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Least satisfied<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stack Overflow has released the results of its 2015 developer survey, which reveals the most loved and most hated technologies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":86489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[35,29686,29684],"class_list":["post-123474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-software-developer","tag-stack-overflow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123474"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123502,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123474\/revisions\/123502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}