The 2022 Stack Overflow developer survey results are out !
The JVM based functional programming language Clojure is the top paying programming language in 2022. Lot of new backend APIs are currently being written in Clojure with databases like Datomic (fully written in Clojure). The most loved Rust language got the 10th position in the top pay list. The popular languages like Python, Javascript and Java are at the bottom of the list followed by PHP and Dart.
Top Paying Technologies in 2022.
| Rank | Programming Language | Median Annual Salary USD |
| 1 | Clojure | $106,644 |
| 2 | Erlang | $103,000 |
| 3 | F# | $95,526 |
| 4 | LISP | $95,000 |
| 5 | Ruby | $93,000 |
| 6 | Elixir | $92,959 |
| 7 | Scala | $92,780 |
| 8 | Perl | $90,073 |
| 9 | Go | $89,204 |
| 10 | Rust | $87,074 |
| 25 | Python | $71,105 |
| 28 | C# | $69,516 |
| 29 | Kotlin | $69,318 |
| 34 | Java script | $65,580 |
| 35 | Java | $64,572 |
| 42 | Dart | $43,724 |
Most Popular Technologies in 2022
Java script is the most popular technology for the past 10 years as per the survey. Python is the 4th and Java the 6th most popular language. The highest paying Clojure is not so popular among the developer community and it is at the 32nd place.
| Rank | Most Popular Technology |
| 1 | JavaScript |
| 2 | HTML/CSS |
| 3 | SQL |
| 4 | Python |
| 5 | Typescript |
| 6 | Java |
| 32 | Clojure |
Most loved software languages of 2022.
Rust continues to hold the first position in this category for 7 years in a row. The developers using it wants to continue using it. Elixir and Clojure are in 2nd and 3rd places. Java is at the 28th position in this list.
| Rank | Most Loved Technology 2022 |
| 1 | Rust |
| 2 | Elixir |
| 3 | Clojure |
| 4 | Typescript |
| 5 | Julia |
| 6 | Python |
| 8 | Go |
| 10 | C# |
| 11 | Kotlin |
This year survey shows that Docker and Kubernetes are gaining more popularity and Git is the most widely used Version control system. In addition to the above there are lot of other interesting insights in the survey. The full results of the survey can be found at the stack overflow website.