Technology | 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey

kept by eddie dec 18, 25

Python adoption accelerated sharply in 2025, Docker saw a record +17 point usage jump, and Rust remained the most admired language, according to the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.

LLMs and your career
Software developers who understand fundamentals like databases and operating systems will remain competitive as LLMs automate routine coding.
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Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
The article claims that AI coding assistants like ChatGPT and Copilot have made programming books largely obsolete, citing massive user growth as evidence.
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Tool: Redis Array Playground
An interactive playground lets users try experimental Redis array commands via WASM, including ARGREP for server-side regex matching.
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Fable one-shotted a Rust rewrite of the TerminalTextEffects Python library in 11M tokens. Startup time went from 87ms to 2ms and rendering s
Fable rewrote the TerminalTextEffects Python library in Rust using 11M tokens, reducing startup time from 87ms to 2ms and boosting rendering speed 9.6x with zero dependencies in a 3MB executable.
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What's the best programming language for coding agents?
Dan Luu's empirical tests with LLMs on Zstd and Pandoc implementations show that language popularity weakly correlates with better outcomes, but claims about dynamic or token-efficient languages being superior for coding agents do not hold across non-trivial tasks.
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