Developer Ecosystem 2025Developer Ecosystem 2025This report reveals trends and insights in the developer community and is based on the responses of 23,262 people across the globe.
We share what matters most – from predictions on AGI, to our top programming languages, to the pets who wag, purr, and steal our hearts.
Is it an absent colon? An extraneous bracket? No, just some fun facts about our fellow developers.
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The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity
66% of developers don’t believe or aren’t sure that current metrics reflect their real contribution.
Instead, they consistently request greater transparency and clarity in measurement processes.
Get access to the full reportMethodology so well-weighted it makes yin and yang look uneven.
The survey ran from April to June, 2025, and included 24,534 developers after data cleaning. We balanced our responses by geography, employment, programming languages, and JetBrains product use.
Some bias may remain, as JetBrains users could have been more likely to respond.
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