[dba-Tech] Stackoverflow stats

[Jim Lawrence]

Every year Stackoverflow puts out a developer survey showing the developer's trends. 

This is unlike a general computer use stats as it is not focused on computers as a whole, only the computer industry as related to developers. This means that trends displayed here are the future of the world of computers...one to five years ahead.

Here is a link to the whole report:
https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-platforms
http://bit.ly/2nrHf9d

Here is a link to the section on the trends developer languages and platforms:
https://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-languages-over-time
http://bit.ly/2nrHYqR

A few interesting take-aways from the trends are as follows. One, the three languages that are steadily growing are; JavaScript, Python and NodeJS. 
Two, the most loved language in their order of preference, the top five, from top to bottom are; Rust (73.1%), Smalltalk (67.0%), TypeScript (64.1%), Swift (63.9%) and Go (63.3%). 
Three, the top five most loved Frameworks and libraries, again in order of preference are; React (66.9%), Node.js (62.1%), .NET Core (60.9%), Spark (60.1%) and Firebase (52.9%).
Four, the top five databases, again, in order of preference are; Redis (64.8%), PostgreSQL (60.8%), MongoDB (55.0%), SQL Server (54.2%) and Cassandra (49.9%)
Five, the top five development platforms, again, in order of preference are; Linux Desktop (69.6%), Serverless (66.3%), Amazon Web Services (AWS) (65.2%), Raspberry Pi (65.2%) and Mac OS (62.3%).

To say this surprises me is an understatement. It is apparent that the industry has evolved significantly since I was an active developer. Does anyone else find these statistics interesting? Has anyone here programmed in Rust, used the framework/library React, the database Redis or done any major development on Serverless (AWS)?   

Jim