The Stack Overflow Developer Survey is an annual survey conducted by Stack Overflow that gathers

comprehensive insights from developers around the world. It offers a valuable snapshot of the

global developer community, covering a wide range of topics such as preferred programming languages,

tools, and technologies. Jody Bailey is the chief product and technology

officer at Stack Overflow, and Aaron Yuppis is a research manager at Stack Overflow. They join the

show with Sean Falconer to talk about the results of the 2025 developer survey, which was

recently released. This episode is hosted by Sean Falconer.

Check the show notes for more information on Sean's work and where to find him.

Aaron and Jody, welcome to the show.

Thank you.

Great to be here, Sean.

Yeah, and Aaron, I guess I should say, welcome back.

This is now our annual podcasting event where we discussed the Stack Overflow developer survey, so I'm excited about that.

Good. Yeah, let's go ahead and get this set up for 2026. Yeah. Exactly. So I think we got a lot to cover. And before we

get into it, I wanted you to help sort of frame what the Stack Overflow developer survey is for

those that are not familiar with it.

So can you give a quick explanation of what it is and what you're trying to accomplish with that?

Yeah.

So the Stack Overflow developer survey has existed for almost as long as Stack Overflow the site has existed.

So this has been our 15th year of running it.

It started as a very small thing. There's a lot of

people on the site asking questions just to get that really clear, aggregated view of what

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