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"Trying to be nice" Becomes Less Important For Developers As They Gain Experience

No, I didn’t say this, but 56,033 developers in 173 countries who responded to recent Stack Overflow's developer survey did.  I have always enjoyed going through these surveys to validate my several hypotheses and learn new things. I would strongly encourage you to go through the results from the most recent survey here . Here are some interesting insights: Occupation "Full stack developer" is the most identified developer occupation. More and more developers are gravitating towards this occupation where they are simultaneously working on 5 to 6 programming languages or frameworks at time. Rise of new languages and frameworks don’t mean developer fragmentation, but more developers picking up more and more languages. It’s not about SQL or Angular; it’s SQL and Angular. Ninjas: 10% of respondents self-identified as Ninjas! Yeah. So, yes, watch out. Age The millennial: The highest percentage of developers, 28.4%, are in the age group 24-29, followed by 23.6% in the age group