Tools regularly used for software development worldwide 2018-2022

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Lionel Sujay Vailshery,
Jun 3, 2024
According to 84 percent of the software developers surveyed, source code collaboration tools, such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, are the most regularly used tools among software developers as of 2022.

Programming/development tools used by software developers worldwide from 2018 to 2022

Characteristic20182019202020212022
Source code collaboration tool (e.g. GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) 77% 80% 85% 85% 84%
Desktop Editor (e.g. Sublime Text, Atom, VS Code, Vim) 69% 71% 77% 74% 74%
Standalone IDE (e.g. Visual Studio, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA) 82% 75% 77% 76% 73%
Issue tracker (e.g. Jira, YouTrack) 44% 44% 44% 43% 45%
Continuous Integration (CI) or Continuous Delivery (CD) tool (e.g. Jenkins, TeamCity) 44% 45% 45% 43% 44%
Team collaboration / task management / project / workflow management tools - - 41% 42% 40%
Static analysis tool (e.g. CodeClimate) 14% 13% 13% 12% 13%
In-cloud Editor or IDE 8% 9% 10% 10% 12%
Code review tool (e.g. Crucible, Upsource) 13% 10% 11% 8% 9%
Service desk / helpdesk automation solutions (Zendesk) - - 6% 5% 6%
None 2% 3% 1% 1% 1%
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