This post was originally made by jeroenheijmans over on the AoC reddit. All of the text below is by them but figured people here would want to read it as well
TLDR
Every year since 2018 I’ve run the “Unofficial AoC Survey”. This is a preannouncement that there will be another installment in 2023! The most important bits:
You can check the results from previous years to get a sense of what this is
You can subscribe to notifications via a (locked) GitHub issue and/or keep an eye on
ℹ Some more info
The survey opens around December 1st. I typically close it a little before Christmas, and try to publish results the 23rd or 24th of December. There will be an announcement, and a couple of reminders to notify y’all of the survey itself.
All the data is sanitized (and I remove a handful of seemingly unintentional bits of private data folks tend to submit) before publishing it under the ODbL, next to the (MIT Licensed) source of the dashboard and parsing code.
I nearly never change the questions (apart from adding some options e.g. for language used, so you don’t have to use the “Other…” field), because the consistency (and consequently: ability to compare results of various years) and shortness of the survey mean a lot to me. It has to be a quick 3-5 minutes to fill it out. The suggestions for changing the survey are tracked on GitHub, but like I mentioned I will likely only change small stuff.
Hopefully this preannouncement will help even more folks find the survey, as this subreddit can get rather hectic in December 😅 - subscribe to notifications on GitHub if you absolutely want to be sure you don’t miss it. (That issue is locked so no fear for any “+1!” spam 😂)
🏆 Oh, and this then…
Before I leave y’all to it, two final questions for y’all:
- What’s your prediction for biggest rising star on the Language front!?
- Which IDE do you think will be the runner up after VSCode in 2023?
For reference, here’s the top numbers from 2023:
