State of Web Development 2010
We’re late to our own party here, but earlier this week we released the results of our second State of Web Development survey (last year it was the state of the web survey, but we changed the name to more closely match the aim of the report).
You can download the complete (anonymized) set of responses in CSV format, our PDF infographic overview see just the results to all the questions or read on to dive into our detailed analysis.
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That’s a great infographic John. Gets the data across with just enough prettiness.
I cannot imagine the majority of web developpers working on macs. Not that I don’t want, but my experience is more 90% on Windows… I think the public responding to the survey is a bit oriented…
@Benoit: What you mean by oriented? I follow John in Twitter because I share 100% his point of view about HTML5 semantic deficiencies. I’m a web developer. I use Mac. I did the survey. So?
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After reading the “just the results to all the questions” link it looks like not too much has changed since 2008.
Still an interesting cross-section of the design/development community.
I’m surprised that Mac-use is so high as I thought most web developers were PC or Linux, and it’s good that php is the language of choice (rightly so).
All of the developers I know are either using macs (me) or wish they were (workplace only allows them to use windows). They definitely use mac at home.
I am a mac user at home, and develop with PHP MySQL in that environment. It is perfectly suited for sites LIKE weblogs and small freelance projects.
In the workplace I am on a PC in a .NET environment. There on the massive application in place I would imagine that a LAMP approach may be slow and heavy. Compiled languages ARE faster.
All in all an interesting survey, and it’s nice to see even more parody in the browsers avail. Although it can be tedious to test on EVERY browser, I think it will render faster more compliant browsers in the end.
Regarding Macs, I am a member of the Madison Ave Collective, a group of freelancers in Corvallis, Oregon. All the web developers and graphic designers here use Macs. In fact, the only member who doesn’t is a business coach who uses a combination of paper and an ancient Windows laptop. I do know some web professionals in town who use Windows, but they are all either recently laid off from HP or are doing .NET/ASP development. The world is moving toward open source, and Macs provide a happy platform from which to work.
Ugh, I’d never have believed that I’d find myself saying this one day, but out of the three, as things stand right now, Macs are the ‘least‘ user-friendly.
I believe the results do reflect actual trends, but I’m betting the OS results are going to shift next year.
The one result out of all of that which really stuns me is the inference that almost 2/3rds (62%) of the respondents don’t test their work in Mobile Safari.
Considering the traffic our clients see from it, I’m really surprised that not more are at least checking to see what’s going on. The numbers for IE6 continue to slide, while Mobile Safari numbers get closer to overtaking it every month.
Very nice post John. Would be interested to see how it looks this year.
Nice post. I wonder who’ll be the browser choice for this year. Seems like Google chrome is working its way up to the top.