Ruby on Rails, MySQL and Git Dominate Developer's Toolkit
Bestvendor.com recently interviewed 500 developers from start-up companies to know the most popular tools they use and unearth some hidden gems and rising stars. Below is the infographic illustrated by Bestvendor.com showing results across a range of product categories, from bug tracking to version control.
Some notes:
- As expected and mentioned by RWW, some stalwarts predominate, such as Git, Dropbox, MySQL, and Google Analytics.
- Interesting situation with frameworks: Ruby on Rails is still a popular framework of choice among web developers while CodeIgniter is gaining traction among other PHP-based frameworks.
- Their observations make sense. "Better tools are arriving everyday". Again as I mentioned in my post before, choosing the right tool can be difficult and it can be a constant search for what works best for you so yes, it's critical to keep up.
- I liked their idea of including hidden gems and trending apps -- it gives you new alternatives to try. Node.js is really something to watch out for.
- If the results here are based from respondents in start-up companies, it would also be nice to know the popular tools of choice among developers in the enterprise or among developers in general.
What do you think of the results? Are you also using these tools for your web application development? Here are the technologies we use for our web app development.