Welcome to the State of the Developer Nation Q1 2016 report, based on the 10th Developer Economics global survey wave. Produced by VisionMobile, Developer Economics is the leading research program on mobile, desktop, IoT, and cloud developers, tracking developer experiences across platforms, revenues, apps, languages, tools, APIs, segments and regions. The 10th Developer Economics global survey wave ran from October to November 2015, and reached more than 21,000 developers in over 150 countries. The report focuses on seven major themes – each with its own visualisation showing how the data lends insight into the developer community. This State of the Developer Nation report highlights some of the most interesting findings from the survey: the trends in platform and language that are changing the industry, and how developers are meeting those new challenges. In this report we’ve summarized the key findings, and present some thoughts on how those trends will change the software landscape over the next few years.

Key Questions

• Which platforms are attracting developer attention? How are developers dividing their time?
• Who are developers? How have the 6 segments or types of developers, from Hobbyists to Enterprise IT, evolved over the last six months?
• How are developers applying their skills across domains, between mobile, desktop, cloud and IoT?
• How have developers’ preferred languages changed over the last 12 months, from Java to Swift?
• Which developers are making the most money? Which business model is paying off best for them?
• What IoT Revenue Models are making money for many developers?

Methodology

Developer Economics 10th edition reached an impressive 21,941 respondents from 150+ countries around the world. As such, it is the most global research on mobile, desktop, IoT and cloud developers combined ever conducted. This report is based on a large-scale online developer survey designed, produced and carried out by VisionMobile over a period of seven weeks between October and November 2015.