Mid-Year Review:

MID-YEAR REVIEW: Major Surveys, Studies, and Reports From 2020 So Far

Today, we're highlighting the main points of the major web development surveys, reports, and studies so far from this year. In the final installment, we'll cover the most important news stories this year, as well as other tool information updates you need to know to stay ahead of the game.

Check out previous installments here:

Part One: Version Control – GitHub, GitLab, and Git Mid-Year Review
Part Two: Browsers / IDEs / Operating Systems / Command Line
Part Three: JavaScript / Front-End Development Mid-Year Review
Part Four: Python, PHP, Golang, Ruby/Ruby on Rails, and Rust Mid-Year Review

PART FIVE: INDUSTRY TRENDS SO FAR

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2020 report: After questioning nearly 65,000 developers, here are the top highlights from the survey you need to know:

Language Popularity:

TypeScript overtook Python as the second-most loved language; 67.1% want to use TypeScript and 66.7% want...
U.S.: engineering managers make the most at $152,000 per year, while site reliability engineers...
Scala brings in the highest pay in the U.S. at $150,000. Go...

Other Technologies:

Linux and Windows are...

JetBrains 2020 State of the Developer Ecosystem report: After surveying almost 20,000 developers, here are some highlights:

Java is...

Workforce Trends:

Here's a breakdown of the HackerRank survey, which questioned over 111,000 developers and students from 162 countries about learning trends and more:

One in every three hiring managers has employed a coding bootcamp graduate, with 72% reporting these hires were equally or even better prepared for the job.
Although 32% of developers at smaller companies do not have a university degree, larger...

And here's a breakdown of recruitment firm Hired's report about which languages are most desired:

Golang was the language most desired by...

Language-Specific Surveys:

PYTHON:

2019 Python Developers Survey main highlights:

59% use Python for data analysis, while 51% use it for web development, 4% less...

GO:

The results of the Go Developer Survey 2019: After receiving 10,975 responses, which is about twice as much as the survey received in 2018, generally speaking, Go developers revealed...

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RUST:

The Rust team released the results...

JAVA:

Tech company New Relic analyzed...

Security: