JetBrains has released its State of the Developer Ecosystem survey, with more than 24,500 responses, revealing AI's impact on developer tools and programming language trends - including the claim that PHP and Ruby are in "long term decline."

This annual survey is one of the largest targeting developers, but also one of the hardest to parse due to its complex methodology .

Responses are weighted to remove bias toward users of JetBrains products, regional distribution, and other factors. Still, it consistently shows higher usage of JetBrains IDEs - as well as Java and Kotlin - than other surveys like Stack Overflow's . The core JetBrains IDE platform is largely coded in Java and Kotlin, so this is unsurprising. The company acknowledges that "some bias is likely present" in the survey as Je

See Full Page