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The State of Web Development 2010

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I love graphs and charts as much as the next person but I couldn't find where I would have been able to take the survey if I had known about it before hand, 1402 respondents seems low.

I'm surprised to see CodeIgniter up there. I never got the impression it was picking up in popularity.

Based on the fact that CodeIgniter is up there, I think we can assume that this survey is oversampling PHP developers. The post doesn't say much about their methodology for distributing surveys, but I'm guessing not too many landed at the financial (web) software firm my friend works at - 500 developers strong, all working in .NET. My impression of bias is further strengthened by the numbers working in OS X. While I believe that more than 50% of PHP/Ruby on Rails developers are using Macs, I don't think that number will hold up when Java and .NET devs are included.

Or maybe it will. Who knows? Point is, unless they share their data collection methodology, this survey could just as likely be representative of the 1,400 folks who follow web directions on twitter.

Yeah I have to agree with spanktheuser, unless their is some transparency on how they are coming to these conclusions, it's hard to take these numbers seriously.

55.11% were using JavaScript as a /back-end/ language in 2008? I find that highly suspect.

In the tables and charts below, the aberation of JavaScript appearing as a language used by 55% of respondents in 2008, and only 7% this survey can be put down to confusion in the wording of the question last year. Clearly, many respondents thought the question applied to all languages they use, not just those on the back end. We ensured this mistake was not repeated this year.

Is the Android web browser really called "Android"? I thought it was Mobile Chrome, but I admit now that I look at it that the "Chrome" name doesn't appear in Android.

The whole "mobile browser" thing seemed odd. Mobile Safari, Mobile Chrome, RIM's future browser, etc. - they're running on webkit, and that what matters.

The problem is, not all WebKit browsers on mobile are exactly the same: http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html

Desktop Safari and Chrome are also based on webkit but they still have names.

I think it's called "the Android Browser".

It's different to Chrome - the Webkit version is different (not sure by how much at the moment) and it doesn't have the V8 Javascript engine (yet - although it is possible to build it with V8 now)

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