Build Insider Survey (in April 2014)

We surveyed the most popular developer technology in Japan

Hub Android Android Wear AngularJS Arduino Atom AWS Azure Backbone.js C# C++ Cassandra ClojureScript CoffeeScript Cordova D3.js Dart Datomic Docker DynamoDB Eclipse Elasticsearch Emacs Ember.js Glass Google App Engine Haxe HTML5 HTTP 2.0 Immutable Infrastructure IntelliJ IDEA iOS Jasmine Java JavaScript jQuery jQuery Mobile JsTestDriver JSX Kinect knockout.js Leap Motion LESS Light Table Linux Mac MariaDB Mocha Monaca MongoDB MVC MySQL NetBeans Objective-C Oculus Rift Om Oracle PhoneGap PHP PhpStorm Play Framework PostgreSQL Python QUnit Raspberry Pi React Redis ReSharper Ruby RubyMine Sass SignalR SPDY SQL Server SQLite Stylus Sublime Text TypeScript Unity Vim Visual Basic Visual Studio Vue.js Web Components WebGL WebRTC WebSocket Windows Windows Phone Xamarin Xamarin Studio Xcode

2014年5月2日

The popularity rankings of development-technologies which developers want to use in the future.

Masahiko Isshiki of Digital Advantage corp.

Our web media - Build Insider - did a questionnaire survey about web and developer technology trend in Japan. This article describes the results.

Period: March 31 - April 18
Total number of responses: 230 (The number of valid responses to each questions: See "Answered" on each graph images)
Respondents attribute: See the end of this article

This article contains two sections.

Section 1. JavaScript and Web technology - this time theme
Section 2. Development technology trend - regular questions < We will do a survey in April and October every year >

Section 1. JavaScript and Web technology

Popular category

The following categories in JavaScript libraries and tools are popular (top-five).

1MVC-based framework (such as AngularJS)
2DOM manipulation (such as jQuery)
3altJS (such as TypeScript)
4JavaScript testing tools (such as QUnit)
5CSS preprocessors (Such as LESS)

Popular category of JavaScript libraries and tools [Multiple choice]

Ranking 6 or later: "Mobile framework (such as jQuery Mobile)", "Web graphics (such as three.js)", "Template engine (such as Handlebars.js)".
Sample responses of "Other": "Reactive View framework (Facebook's React / Om etc.)", "ClojureScript", "Web Components" etc.

MVC-based framework

The popularity ranking of MVC-based framework [Multiple choice]

Sample responses of "Other": There were some answers. "Vue.js" was especially popular.

altJS: JavaScript Alternative

The following "alternative JavaScript languages and tools" have become popular. The popularity of TypeScript has been especially increasing.

The popularity ranking of altJS (JavaScript Alternative) [Multiple choice]

Sample responses of "Other": "ClojureScript" was especially popular.

CSS preprocessors (CSS metalanguage)

The popularity ranking of CSS preprocessors (CSS metalanguage) [Multiple choice]

*There was no same answer to "Other".

JavaScript testing tools

The popularity ranking of JavaScript testing tools [Multiple choice]

*There was no same answer to "Other".

Web technologies that you have particular interest in

The following are answers to the question: "If there is a technology that you are especially interested in as Web technologies, please specify that technology name". This list is ordered by popularity.

1WebSocket
2SPDY／HTTP 2.0
3HTML5
3TypeScript
4Web Components
5AngularJS
5WebGL
5Immutable Infrastructure (Docker etc.)
6Scala ＋ Play Framework
6SignalR
6WebRTC
7d3.js
7Reactive Programming (Rx etc.)
7Dart

Section 2. Development technology trend

The popularity of technology area

First, let's check the popular technology area. In this survey, we divided technology into the following four main areas.

1Smartphone / tablet development
2Web creation / Web design / Web development
3Next-generation-Device development (such as Kinect, Leap Motion, Oculus Rift and Arduino)
4Windows / Mac desktop development

The popularity of technology area [Multiple choice]

Let's take a look deeply at some of these areas.

Smartphone development technology

1C# (Xamarin)
2HTML5 (PhoneGap / Cordova / Monaca)
3C# / JavaScript (Unity)
4Java (Android)
5Objective-C (iOS)

The popularity ranking of Smartphone development technology [Multiple choice]

Sample responses of "Other": "Titanium Mobile", "Cocos2d-x", "Haxe", "Qt" etc.

Device technology

The popularity ranking of Device technology [Multiple choice]

Ranking 4 or later: "Leap Motion", "Arduino", "Android Wear", "Oculus Rift".
Sample responses of "Other": "Windows Phone" was especially popular.

Cloud platforms

The popularity ranking of Cloud platforms [Multiple choice]

Sample responses of "Other": "Heroku", "DigitalOcean" were especially popular. And "NIFTY Cloud", "SoftLayer" were popular.

Databases and Storages

The popularity ranking of databases and storages [Multiple choice]

Ranking 7 or later: "Windows Azure SQL Database", "Oracle", "Elasticsearch", "DynamoDB", "Cassandra", "HBase", "Riak", "Microsoft Access", "RavenDB", "CouchDB", "DB2".
Sample responses of "Other": "MariaDB" was especially popular. And "Datomic" was popular.

IDEs (Integrated Development Environment) and text editors for developers

The popularity of Visual Studio and IntelliJ IDEA seems high in particular. In addition, 60% of users of Visual Studio answered "I want to use ReSharper plug-ins in the future".

The popularity ranking of IDEs and text editors for developers [Multiple choice]

Ranking 5 or later: "Xcode", "Xamarin Studio", "Eclipse", "PhpStorm", "Emacs".
Sample responses of "Other": "Vim" was especially popular. And "Atom", "Light Table", "NetBeans", "RubyMine" etc. were popular.

Respondents attribute

Age group

Age group [Single choice]

Jobs

Jobs [Multiple choice]

*There was no same answer to "Other".

Programming languages

Programming languages [Multiple choice]

Computer for work

Computer for work [Multiple choice]

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I hope this will help.

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