The 15th annual developer survey from Stack Overflow includes options to select Delphi and the ability to write in RAD Studio. This is a very popular survey within the developer community with nearly 70,000 developers participating last year - so please boost visibility of the RAD Studio developer by participating!
As usual, you do not have to be an active Stack Overflow member to take the survey and the answers are all anonymous. Here is a link to the survey. It takes about 10-15 minutes to complete.
The questions you will be answering are divided into 5 sets (the technology, community and AI questions are randomized)
- Learning and Career (23 questions)
- Tech and Tech Culture (20 questions)
- Community (21 questions)
- AI (20 questions)
- Final Thoughts (3 questions)
The full question list as presented to me:
- Are you someone who writes code?
- What is your age?
- Agree to consent to anonymous answers being made publicly available
- Which of the following best describes the highest level of formal education that you’ve completed?
- Which of the following best describes your current employment status?
- Which of the following additional activities are you currently engaged in? (school/part time work/volunteering..)
- How many years of professional work experience do you have?
- Did you begin learning to code or learn a new coding skill/programming language in the last year?
- How did you learn to code in the past year? (School, books, blogs…)
- Did you spend time in the last year learning AI programming or AI-enabled tooling on your own or at work?
- How did you learn to code for AI in the past year?
- Including any education, how many years have you been coding in total? Please round to the nearest whole number, excluding any decimal points.
- Which of the following describes your current job or the job you had for the most time in the past year?
- Approximately how many people are employed by your employer?
- Are you an individual contributor or people manager?
- Which best describes your current work situation? (Remote, hybrid, in-person)
- Have you influenced or endorsed a new technology purchase at your organization or sole proprietor job in the past year?
- When you’re in a position to influence or endorse a technology, whether at work, for school, or for a personal project you’re responsible for, what features or attributes matter most when deciding to support a tool? What factors would be deal-breakers?
- What industry do you work in?
- How satisfied are you in your current professional developer role?
- Rank the following attributes of your current professional job in technology according to those that contribute your job satisfaction so that the first is the most important, last is least important
- Do you believe AI is a threat to your current job?
- Have you considered a career change or transitioned into a new role in the past year?
- How many distinct software applications or platforms did you regularly use to create, analyze, manage, or share information in order to do your job?
- Where do you live? (country)
- Which currency do you use day-to-day?
- What is your current total annual compensation?
- Did you work with programming, scripting and markup languages in the last year or do you plan to in the year to come?
- Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year?
Ensure to pick Delphi!
- Did you work with database environments in the last year or do you plan to in the year to come?
- Which database environments have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year?
- Did you work with cloud platforms, containerization/orchestration tools, package managers, build tools or infrastructure as code solutions in the last year or do you plan to in the year to come?
- Which cloud platforms, containerization/orchestration tools, package managers, build tools, and infrastructure as code solutions have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year?
- Did you work with web frameworks and web technologies in the last year or do you plan to in the year to come?
- Which web frameworks and web technologies have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year?
- Did you work with development environments or AI-enabled code editing tools in the last year or do you plan to in the year to come?
- Which development environments and AI-enabled code editing tools did you use regularly over the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year?
Ensure to add “RAD Studio” to the “Not listed above” option
- Which rising technology added as a new tag on Stack Overflow in the last few years have you used regularly in the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year?
Ensure to pick Delphi 12+ Athens
- What is the primary operating system in which you work?
- Which collaborative work management and/or code documentation tools did you use regularly over the past year, and which do you want to work with over the next year?
- Which community platforms have you utilized considerably or consistently in the past year, and which would you like to use next year?
- Did you utilize or integrate specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to power your development tools or applications in the last year?
- Which LLM models for AI tools have you used for development work in the past year, and which would you like to use next year?
- Do you currently use AI tools in your development process?
- How favorable is your stance on using AI tools as part of your development workflow?
- How much do you trust the accuracy of the output from AI tools as part of your development workflow?
- How well do the AI tools you use in your development workflow handle complex tasks?
- Which parts of your development workflow are you currently integrating into AI or using AI tools to accomplish or plan to use AI to accomplish over the next 3 - 5 years?
- When using AI tools, which of the following problems or frustrations have you encountered?
- In your own words, is “vibe coding” part of your professional development work?
- Are you using AI agents in your work (development or otherwise)?
- Have AI tools or AI agents changed how you complete development work in the past year?
- To what extent do you agree with the following statements regarding AI agents?
- In the future, when AI can do most coding tasks, in which situations would you still want to ask another person for help?
- Looking ahead 3–5 years, what skills do you believe will remain valuable for developers even as AI tools become more capable?
- Do you have a Stack Overflow account?
- How frequently would you say you visit Stack Overflow?
- How long have you used Stack Overflow?
- How frequently would you say you participate in Q&A on Stack Overflow?
- Whether it be to solve a problem, for career growth or connecting with a community of developers, is there an alternative to the Q&A format you prefer using today or would like to see on Stack Overflow to get what you need?
- When visiting Stack Overflow, which following activities are you most interested in?
- Do you consider yourself a member of the Stack Overflow community?
- When you visit Stack Overflow, how often is it a result of encountering issues from AI or AI-enabled tools that require extra time or effort to fix, understand, or debug?
- How do you feel about the length of the survey this year?
- How easy or difficult was this survey to complete?
- Did you have any issues (technical or otherwise) while taking this survey?
2024 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Results For Delphi
Below is a result of the question: Which programming, scripting, and markup languages have you done extensive development work in over the past year, and which do you want to work in over the next year?
- For “All respondents”, Delphi was 1.8%.
- For “Professional Developers”, Delphi was 1.8%
- For “Learning to Code”, Delphi was 0.8%
- For “Other Coders”, Delphi was 2.3%
Needless to say, we definitely need more Delphi developers to complete the survey!
Complete the survey today
Based on previous years performance, I will estimate that this blog post will get (at least) twice as many views as the total number of respondents selecting Delphi as their dev tool of choice in the survey - which makes no sense! So please stop what are you doing and take the survey now and pick Delphi when prompted. It’s really quick to do and it can help increase visibility of the language. Don’t rely on the next person to do it.
When you are done, share the link with everyone you know and ask them to do the same. Let’s shift perspectives and drive a significantly better result in the 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey!