Mac Developer Survey 2021

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Here are the results of the 2021 Mac Developer Survey. With more than 4,000 participants from over 90 countries, the survey reveals the most popular tools, services, and technologies among software and web developers working on macOS.

The 2021 Mac Dev Survey results are in! Learn which technologies, tools and resources developers on the Mac prefer!

You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. 4,072 developers working on the Mac answered the call and took part in our 2021 survey. Besides working through 26 individual questions, they also answered a more far-reaching question: Who are we as a community? Almost half of our particiants are in their thirties. And with another 25 % being in their forties, it means that the average developer on the Mac has quite some experience to draw on! Our community is really all over the globe! People from more than 90 countries took part, from Canada to Costa Rica and from Singapore to Spain! The Mac has arrived in the enterprise: more than a quarter of…from git-tower.com

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