Most used embedded technologies among developers worldwide 2024

Published by
Ahmed Sherif,
Sep 3, 2024

In 2024, Raspberry Pi was the most popular embedded technology among developers globally, with 39 percent of respondents reporting to have either used it in development work over the previous year or plan to work with it in the next year. Arduino, GNU GCC, and CMake were also popular among developers.

Most used embedded technologies among developers worldwide as of 2024

CharacteristicShare of respondents
Raspberry Pi 39.1%
CMake 28.9%
Arduino 27.1%
GNU GCC 27%
LLVM's Clang 17%
Cargo 15.2%
MSVC 9.2%
Ninja 8.1%
PlatformIO 4.8%
Meson 2.7%
QMake 2.6%
Catch2 1.8%
cppunit 1.7%
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Release date

July 2024

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

May 19 to June 20, 2024

Number of respondents

19,605 respondents

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Original question: "Which embedded systems and technologies have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year?" Multiple choices were allowed.

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