What Tools are Developers Using?

The Developer's Toolkit is an infographic that shows the top tools being used by developers. The information based in this infographic is based on a survey of 500 developers around the world that was conducted by BestVendor. More importantly, this survey targeted developers in companies with less than 100 people.

In reviewing these statistics, I see a few things that seem questionable. Regardless, it is always interesting to see numbers. Do you think the rankings are accurate? Do you see things that seem to be missing?



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I'd like to see how they determined the industry... "Professional Services?" What does that mean? It's a very broad term. And how is it different from "Technology"? One huge glaring hole: Platform. A lot of the top items are cross platform or web-based... which makes me wonder how many of those companies are Apple-platform users. Hmmm ... "Design and Creative" professionals... sounds like graphic designers... people concerned with image... not (code) developers. I wouldn't be surprised if they surveyed 180 code monkeys, they got a completely different result.

Also, 180 people hardly seems representative of the industry at large.

-tg

Yep, these numbers look skewed enough to be entirely phoney. Amazon doesn't even do Web Hosting per se.

And it seems everyone who sits in an office is a "developer" these days. In the average company under 100 people "developer" probably means "boss's nephew writing Excel macros."

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Originally Posted by dilettante

In the average company under 100 people "developer" probably means "boss's nephew writing Excel macros."

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I wonder how many people on this site you just offeneded? ;) :D

They might be the boss' niece..... :p

Brad!

Oops, I need to work on being more PC. And don't call me "Mac." ;)

In one company I worked for in 2000, one of the developers on the team was completing class assignments for the boss' daughter.