http://simonwillison.net/2025-05-18T11:50:06+00:00Simon Willison2025-05-18T11:50:06+00:002025-05-18T11:50:06+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/2025-python-packaging-ecosystem-survey/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://anaconda.surveymonkey.com/r/py-package-2025">2025 Python Packaging Ecosystem Survey</a></strong></p> If you make use of Python packaging tools (pip, Anaconda, uv, dozens of others) and have opinions please spend a few minutes with this year's packaging survey. This one was "Co-authored by 30+ of your favorite Python Ecosystem projects, organizations and companies." <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/packaging">packaging</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pip">pip</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/psf">psf</a></p>

2024-12-17T04:36:24+00:002024-12-17T04:36:24+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/17/2024-state-of-javascript-survey/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://2024.stateofjs.com/en-US/"><p>2024's top three front end framework [React, Vue, Angular] were all launched over a decade ago.</p> <p>Now sure, all three have evolved a lot along the way, and the patterns of 2014 would seem downright antiquated today. But given the JavaScript ecosystems's reputation as a constantly-churning whirlwind of change, it can be nice to know that some things do remain constant.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://2024.stateofjs.com/en-US/">2024 State of JavaScript survey</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/javascript">javascript</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/react">react</a></p>

2024-09-03T02:47:45+00:002024-09-03T02:47:45+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Sep/3/python-developers-survey-2023/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2023/">Python Developers Survey 2023 Results</a></strong></p> The seventh annual Python survey is out. Here are the things that caught my eye or that I found surprising:</p> <p>25% of survey respondents had been programming in Python for less than a year, and 33% had less than a year of professional experience.</p> <p>37% of Python developers reported contributing to open-source projects last year - a new question for the survey. This is delightfully high!</p> <p>6% of users are still using Python 2. The survey notes:</p> <blockquote> <p>Almost half of Python 2 holdouts are under 21 years old and a third are students. Perhaps courses are still using Python 2?</p> </blockquote> <p>In web frameworks, Flask and Django neck and neck at 33% each, but <a href="https://fastapi.tiangolo.com/">FastAPI</a> is a close third at 29%! <a href="https://www.starlette.io/">Starlette</a> is at 6%, but that's an under-count because it's the basis for FastAPI.</p> <p>The most popular library in "other framework and libraries" was BeautifulSoup with 31%, then Pillow 28%, then <a href="https://github.com/opencv/opencv-python">OpenCV-Python</a> at 22% (wow!) and Pydantic at 22%. Tkinter had 17%. These numbers are all a surprise to me.</p> <p><a href="https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/">pytest</a> scores 52% for unit testing, <code>unittest</code> from the standard library just 25%. I'm glad to see <code>pytest</code> so widely used, it's my favourite testing tool across any programming language.</p> <p>The top cloud providers are AWS, then Google Cloud Platform, then Azure... but <a href="https://www.pythonanywhere.com/">PythonAnywhere</a> (11%) took fourth place just ahead of DigitalOcean (10%). And <a href="https://www.alibabacloud.com/">Alibaba Cloud</a> is a new entrant in sixth place (after Heroku) with 4%. Heroku's ending of its free plan dropped them from 14% in 2021 to 7% now.</p> <p>Linux and Windows equal at 55%, macOS is at 29%. This was one of many multiple-choice questions that could add up to more than 100%.</p> <p>In databases, SQLite usage was trending down - 38% in 2021 to 34% for 2023, but still in second place behind PostgreSQL, stable at 43%.</p> <p>The survey incorporates quotes from different Python experts responding to the numbers, it's worth <a href="https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2023/">reading through the whole thing</a>. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2024/08/python-developers-survey-2023-results.html">PSF news</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/postgresql">postgresql</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/sqlite">sqlite</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pytest">pytest</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/psf">psf</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pydantic">pydantic</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/starlette">starlette</a></p>

2024-04-24T00:31:27+00:002024-04-24T00:31:27+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/24/erika-hall/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://www.muledesign.com/blog/on-surveys"><p>A bad survey won’t tell you it’s bad. It’s actually really hard to find out that a bad survey is bad — or to tell whether you have written a good or bad set of questions. Bad code will have bugs. A bad interface design will fail a usability test. It’s possible to tell whether you are having a bad user interview right away. Feedback from a bad survey can only come in the form of a second source of information contradicting your analysis of the survey results.</p> <p>Most seductively, surveys yield responses that are easy to count and counting things feels so certain and objective and truthful.</p> <p>Even if you are counting lies.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://www.muledesign.com/blog/on-surveys">Erika Hall</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/usability">usability</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ux">ux</a></p>

2024-03-08T00:25:11+00:002024-03-08T00:25:11+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/8/american-community-survey-data-via-ftp/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/acs/data/data-via-ftp.html">American Community Survey Data via FTP</a></strong></p> I got talking to some people from the US Census at NICAR today and asked them if there was a way to download their data in bulk (in addition to their various APIs)... and there was!</p> <p>I had heard of the American Community Survey but I hadn’t realized that it’s gathered on a yearly basis, as a 5% sample compared to the full every-ten-years census. It’s only been running for ten years, and there’s around a year long lead time on the survey becoming available. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/census">census</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/data-journalism">data-journalism</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/nicar">nicar</a></p>

2019-05-21T18:51:43+00:002019-05-21T18:51:43+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2019/May/21/public-data-release-of-stack-overflows-2019-developer-survey/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2019/05/21/public-data-release-of-stack-overflows-2019-developer-survey/">Public Data Release of Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey</a></strong></p> Here’s the Stack Overflow announcement of their developer survey public data release, which discusses the Glitch partnership and mentions Datasette. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/glitch">glitch</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/stackoverflow">stackoverflow</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette">datasette</a></p>

2019-05-21T18:50:22+00:002019-05-21T18:50:22+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2019/May/21/discover-insights-developer-survey-results/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://glitch.com/culture/discover-insights-explore-developer-survey-results-2019/">Discover Insights in Developer Survey Results</a></strong></p> Stack Overflow partnered with Glitch and used Datasette to host the full data set from Stack Overflow’s 2019 Developer Survey! <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/glitch">glitch</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/stackoverflow">stackoverflow</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/datasette">datasette</a></p>

2016-12-07T07:16:00+00:002016-12-07T07:16:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2016/Dec/7/off-the-shelf-question-databasemanagement/#atom-tag

<p><em>My answer to <a href="http://ask.metafilter.com/303489/Off-the-shelf-question-database-management-system-for-repeated-surveys#4395053">Off the shelf question database/management system for repeated surveys?</a> on Ask MetaFilter</em></p> <p>I've been using Airtable for some personal projects recently and I could not be more impressed with it. It makes building a relatively sophisticated database trivial, the collaboration features are outstanding (live updates, full history tracking on everything) and it's fully cross platform - I've designed new databases on my iPhone!</p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ask-metafilter">ask-metafilter</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/airtable">airtable</a></p>

2010-05-05T15:59:00+00:002010-05-05T15:59:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/5/colour/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/">Color Survey Results</a></strong></p> XKCD asked anonymous netizens to provide names for random colours. The results (collated from 222,500 user sessions that named over 5 million colours) are fascinating. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/crowdsourcing">crowdsourcing</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/science">science</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/xkcd">xkcd</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/recovered">recovered</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/colours">colours</a></p>

2007-10-17T16:02:38+00:002007-10-17T16:02:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Oct/17/survey/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/2007surveyresults">Findings From the Web Design Survey</a></strong></p> 32,831 people responded to A List Apart’s survey, and the conclusions have been packaged up in an elegant PDF. You can also download the (anonymized) raw data and run your own analysis. <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/10/16/analytical-breakdowns/">Eric Meyer</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/a-list-apart">a-list-apart</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/eric-meyer">eric-meyer</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/graphs">graphs</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a></p>

2007-04-25T01:47:32+00:002007-04-25T01:47:32+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Apr/25/survey/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://alistapart.com/articles/webdesignsurvey">The Web Design Survey, 2007</a></strong></p> A List Apart is trying to learn more about our community. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/a-list-apart">a-list-apart</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a></p>

2004-06-09T05:10:30+00:002004-06-09T05:10:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2004/Jun/9/wasp/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://webstandards.org/survey/200406">WaSP Survey</a></strong></p> Tell us how to help you! <p><small></small>Via <a href="http://webstandards.org/buzz/archive/2004_06.html#a000353">The Web Standards Project</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/surveys">surveys</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/web-standards-project">web-standards-project</a></p>