{"id":43840,"date":"2023-03-13T03:00:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/?p=43840"},"modified":"2023-03-13T04:35:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T04:35:54","slug":"stack-overflow-survey-finds-most-proven-technologies-open-source-cloud-computing-machine-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peymantaeidi.net\/stem-cell\/2023\/03\/13\/stack-overflow-survey-finds-most-proven-technologies-open-source-cloud-computing-machine-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Stack Overflow Survey Finds Most-Proven Technologies: Open Source, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\tStack Overflow explored the “hype cycle” by asking thousands of real developers<\/a> whether nascent tech trends have really proven themselves, and how they feel about them. “With AI-assisted technologies in the news, this survey’s aim was to get a baseline for perceived utility and impact” of various technologies, writes Stack Overflow’s senior analyst for market research and insights.<\/p>\n

The results? “Open source is clearly positioned as the north star to all other technologies, lighting the way to the chosen land of future technology prosperity.”<\/p>\n

Technologies such as blockchain or AI may dominate tech media headlines, but are they truly trusted in the eyes of developers and technologists? On a scale of zero (Experimental) to 10 (Proven), the top proven technologies by mean score are open source<\/em> with 6.9, cloud computing<\/em> with 6.5, and machine learning<\/em> with 5.9. The lowest scoring were quantum computing<\/em> with 3.7, nanotechnology<\/em> with 4.5, and low code\/no code<\/em> with 4.6…. <\/i><\/p>\n

[When asked for the next technology that everyone will use], AI comes in at the top of the list by a large margin, but our three top proven selections (open source, machine learning, cloud computing) follow after….<\/p>\n

It’s one thing to believe a technology has a prosperous future, it’s another to believe a technology deserves a prosperous future. Alongside the emergent sentiment, respondents also scored the same technologies on a zero (Negative Impact) to 10 (Positive Impact) scale for impact on the world. The top positive mean scoring technologies were open source<\/em> with 7.2, sustainable technologies<\/em> with 6.6 and machine learning<\/em> with 6.5; the top negative mean scoring technologies were low code\/no code<\/em>, InnerSource<\/em>, and blockchain<\/em> all with 5.3. Seeing low code\/no code and blockchain score so low here makes sense because both could be associated with questionable job security in certain developer careers; however it’s surprising that AI is not there with them on the negative end of the spectrum. AI-assisted technology had an above average mean score for positive impact (6.2) and the percent positive score is not that far off from those machine learning and cloud computing (28% vs. 33% or 32%).<\/p>\n

Possibly what we are seeing here as far as why developers would not rate AI more negatively than technologies like low code\/no code or blockchain but do give it a higher emergent score is that they understand the technology better than a typical journalist or think tank analyst. AI-assisted tech<\/em> is the second highest chosen technology on the list for wanting more hands-on training among respondents, just below machine learning. Developers understand the distinction between media buzz around AI replacing humans in well-paying jobs and the possibility of humans in better quality jobs when AI and machine learning technologies mature. Low code\/no code for the same reason probably doesn’t deserve to be rated so low, but it’s clear that developers are not interested in learning more about it.<\/p>\n

Open source software is the overall choice for most positive and most proven scores in sentiment compared to the set of technologies we polled our users about. <\/p>\n

One quadrant of their graph shows three proven technologies which developers still had negative feelings about: biometrics, serverless computing, and rapid prototyping tools. (With “Internet of Things” straddling the line between positive and negative feelings.) <\/p>\n

And there were two technologies which 10% of respondents thought would never be widely used in the future: low code\/no code and blockchain. “Post-FTX scandal, it’s clear that most developers do not feel blockchain is positive or proven,” the analyst writes.<\/p>\n

“However there is still desire to learn as more respondents want training with blockchain than cloud computing. There’s a reason to believe in the direct positive impact of a given technology when it pays the bills.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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