State of Developer Experience 2024

How much time developers are losing due to inefficiencies, the top causes of time loss, and more.

The advent and rise of AI-based code assistants are already impacting the data that populates RedMonk’s language rankings. As questions and knowledge sharing moves from public forums to private tools, our ability to ascertain meaningful trends from said public data will be indefinitely altered. 

The First Set of Bug-fixes for ReSharper and Rider 2023.3 Are Here! 

TIOBE Index Predicts C# as 2023 'Language of the Year' After 2022 Near-Miss 

Microsoft. Data.SqlClient 5.2 preview 4 is out, and includes the new high performance SqlBatch API: execute multiple commands in a single network roundtrip 

If you are updating to EF Core 8, consider using the daily builds, or wait for the 31 fixes coming in 8.0.2 in Februrary 2024 

Use Rust or C#, abandon C++: Five Eyes agencies warn about memory safety in programming languages 

Microbenchmark testing Python, Numba, Mojo, Dart, C/gcc, Rust, Go, JavaScript, C#, Java, Kotlin, Pascal, Ruby, Haskell performance in Mandelbrot set generation 

Benchmarking several languages/tools with Mandelbrot set generation. 1-to-1 translation of code from one language to another. No SIMD, no multithreading (except prange() trick with Numba), no tricks (e.g. skipping sqrt), a bare minimum of language specific adjustments to make the code nicer while keeping all loops and operations in place. 

ReSharper 2023.3: Support For C# 12, Performance Enhancements, and More AI-Powered Features 

Rider 2023.3: Support for .NET 8 SDK, the Latest From C# 12, Performance Enhancements, Predictive Debugging, and More AI-powered Features.