Asia/Pacific to Surpass N. America For Web Developers
According to IDC, the number of professional developers worldwide will increase to 13.3 million by 2006 from 7.8 million in 2001.
According to IDC, the number of professional developers worldwide will increase to 13.3 million by 2006 from 7.8 million in 2001.
North America remained the region with the most developers worldwide in 2001, overtaking Western Europe, which was in the number 2 position with 1.7 million, and the remaining three regions - Eastern Europe, the Middle East/Africa, and Latin America - accounting for a combined 1.8 million developers, or 23.4% of the total. IDC forecasts that will change in 2005 when Asia/Pacific will become the region with the most developers, especially in the world's largest countries, China and India. The countries with the most developers are the United States, China, India, Russia, Japan, Canada, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy which represents 64.2% of total developers.
The economic downturn has dramatically affected the growth in the number of worldwide developers and actually caused a decline in the number of employed professional developers in North America from 2000 to 2001, says Stephen Hendrick, Group Vice President for IDC's Application Development and Deployment research. 'This comes as no surprise since the economic downturn has resulted in extensive layoffs among IT workers.'
The language being used by developers in North America, C/C++ [as well as the newer Microsoft language] still dominates with 29% of the total. Java continues to gain ground and
surpasses Visual Basic to become the second most popular individual language with 18.1% of the total. Primary languages in use by developers in 2001 in North America: C/C++/[and the newer Microsoft language], Java, Visual Basic, HTML, and COBOL.
Many developers are still using older 3GL languages, such as Fortran and RPG, scripting languages such as JavaScript and Perl, and 4GL languages, such as PowerBuilder and Progress, as their primary languages.
IDC is a division of IDG, the world's leading IT media, research and exposition company.
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