Big thanks to everyone who participated in our fifth annual developer survey and helped us reach the right audience! Your inputs are invaluable to us and are pivotal in driving important language design decisions and improving Solidity as an open source project. 
Let’s look at some key insights from and the summary of these various sections from the 2024 survey.
- Demographics: In total, 684 developers from 91 different countries participated in the 2024 survey. The highest number of respondents hail from the USA (10.8%), followed by India and Nigeria at 7.8% each. This remains consistent with last year’s insights, except for Nigeria sharing the second place alongside India this year.
- Dev & User Profiles: Solidity continues to be the most used language by the respondents, followed by TypeScript and JavaScript. A majority of Solidity experts (self-rating of 10) have been using the language for 5+ years.
- Solidity Background: 76.6% of users use Solidity as regularly as daily or weekly. Additionally, Foundry climbs to the highest used Ethereum IDEs this year with 51.1% votes.
- Solidity Developer Experience: With a majority of 66.8%, the survey participants feel that the Solidity developer experience has generally improved in the last year. Mappings (21.8%), contracts as objects (20.4%), and modifiers (15%) continue to be the most liked Solidity features two years in a row in the exact order.
- Language Design: Elimination of stack-too-deep (18.2%), better debugging tools (16.9%), and gas optimisations (13.2%) rank the highest in that order among the most anticipated features/updates this year.
- Solidity Developer Community: Solidity Twitter/Mastodon replaces GitHub Releases as the most popular source used for staying up-to-date with Solidity announcements.
You can check out the full results in the blog post below:
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