The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey in 2018

C#

Key takeaways & Fun facts

Swift & Objective-C

Demographics & Methodology

The C# questions were only shown to the developers who chose C# as one of their three primary programming languages.

What versions of C# do you regularly use?

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Developers are gradually moving from C# 6 to C# 7: the share of the former dropped by 19% while the latter has grown by 16% compared to 2017.

What runtimes do you regularly use?

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C# developers are spreading over to other operating systems: 6% of them now use macOS as a development environment, while 4% work on Unix/Linux.

Which technologies / frameworks do you use, if any? (%)

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59% of C# developers do not hold an MSDN subscription.

Which unit-testing frameworks do you regularly use, if any?

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This question was only answered by respondents who either write or use unit tests.

What performance or diagnostic tools do you regularly use, if any?

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Developers prefer not to use collaboration tools from Microsoft: 59 % of them do not use Microsoft TFS or VSTS. Meanwhile, TFS has the upper hand in this internal competition with VSTS: 22% vs. 12%.
In addition to their current toolset, C# devs are learning JavaScript (29 %), Python (26%), and TypeScript (22%).

Key takeaways & Fun facts

Swift & Objective-C

Demographics & Methodology

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