Unofficial AoC 2022 Survey Results!

TLDR: View the Unofficial AoC 2022 Survey Results online! And feel free to share it!

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Again... wow! 🤩

I'm' humbled again by the amount of input the community provided. Thank you!!

After a very taxing period at work I am on an extended break in Cape Verde, but that wasn't going to stop me from publishing the 5th (anniversary?!) edition of the AoC Survey Results, per tradition, just before Christmas is here!

Luckily last year I changed into a web dashboard setup, and a Chromebook + Linux + Node + git setup worked pretty decent. This also means you could file a GitHub issue if you find a bug (including accessibility concerns!).

Have a look at the Survey Results Dashboard and tell us what you think here on Reddit, or otherwise!

Some of my own favorite highlights for 2022:

• Rust keeps on climbing (up to 16% this year!), Python stays in the clear lead though;
• Neovim doubled (to 6.7%!) while Vim went down by the same amount;
• C++ remains slightly ahead of C# and Java for AoC;

But most importantly: use that "Toggle data table..." button! The custom responses is really where it's at. Here are some great ones:

• Exotic language choices: "my own!", "Autohotkey", "Factorio", "Minecraft", ...;
• Unconventional IDE's: "Pen & Paper", "SAP", "GameMaker", ...;
• Heartwarming 'Reasons for participating', including: "Community!", "For cookies", "Parent-child bonding experience!", and "For the memes!".

Seriously, expand them tables and have a look!

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As a Reddit-bonus here are some hand-picked, customized graphs for 2022:

Languages used bar chart, any language that had >=7% share in any year, difference from 2018 to 2022.

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IDE's used bar chart, any IDE with >= 4.5% share in any year, bars for all years since 2018.

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Operating Systems bar chart shows a stable picture across the years.

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Reasons to participate bar chart (multi-select), shows similar distribution in any given year.

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Global Leaderboard changes since 2018 are quite distinctive! Less people are interested in 2022 in reaching it.

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Private leaderboard count bar chart shows a very steady situation compared to last year.

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Bar chart showing how people reported doing previous years, halving participation roughly each year going back.

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Line chart with responses per day of December, ending up roughly at the same count as 2021.