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Dev tools · May 10, 2017

Stack Overflow Trends

Current programming and technology trends by Stack Overflow

Stack Overflow Trends launched on May 10, 2017 with 212 votes, #142 of 3,229 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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What it does

Update: March 2026. Tag trends has been retired. You can still access the data using our Data Explorer - see this example query . On a typical day, developers ask over 8,000 questions on Stack Overflow about programming problems they run into in their work. Which technologies are they asking about, and how has that changed over time? Today, we're introducing the Stack Overflow Trends tool to track interest in programming languages and technologies, based on the number of Stack Overflow questions asked per month. For example, we could compare the relative usage of three programming languages. Here, we can see that questions about the Python programming language have become rapidly more…from stackoverflow.blog

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