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VS Code and Visual Studio Rock the 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Report
Stack Overflow's huge developer survey is out for 2022, showing that Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio have cemented their positions as the two most popular IDEs among more than 70,000 developers who were polled.
That's the same ranking they had in the 2018 survey and the 2019 survey and the 2021 survey (the 2020 survey inexplicably didn't include IDEs). Note that SO deems VS Code to be an IDE, though many rather classify it as a code editor.
However, while the rankings are the same, the percentage of respondents favoring Microsoft's two IDEs has actually increased. In 2018, 34.9 percent of respondents voted for VS Code, and 34.3 percent for Visual Studio. In 2019, those numbers were 50.7 percent and 31.5, respectively. In 2021, they were 71.06 percent and 33.03 percent. In 2022, they are 74.48 percent and 32.15 percent (so Visual Studio actually dipped a bit). Microsoft also fared well in many other categories.
For example, .NET was the top non-web framework/library, used by 34.55 percent of respondents, followed by NumPy (28.65 percent) and Pandas (25.08 percent). Interestingly, the order was NumPy, Pandas and .NET among those who were learning to code. As can be seen in the graphic below, SO this year used All Respondents, Professional Developers and Learning to Code segmentations.
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