Stack Overflow released the results of its annual developer survey this week, with responses from over 70,000 developers across 180 countries. The survey highlights attitudes, tools, and environments that are shaping software today.

Docker and Kubernetes placed first and second place this year as the most loved and wanted tools. Rust and Python shared the title for most wanted technology, with TypeScript coming in second.

For the seventh year in a row, Rust is the most loved language. C and C++ were low on that list. Over half of those surveyed responded they “dreaded” using each of the languages, indicating that plans by the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) and the Linux Foundation to eliminate C and C++ might be welcomed by the developer community.

C and C++ were also low tier for the top paying technologies, with Clojure, Erlang, and F# taking the top spots. However, median salaries increased about 23% between 2021 and 2022 and even low tier languages saw year-over-year salary growth. 

The survey also showed that senior roles like executives and engineering managers tend to have the highest salaries, but in the U.S., Germany, U.K., and Canada, Blockchain developers have comparable salaries despite having the lowest average years of experience. 

The three highest-paid roles have, on average, more than 11 years of experience. Similar to last year, 50% of respondents have been coding for ten years or less, but U.S. developers average over 15 years. Respondents from the U.S. reported salaries as high as $200,000 per year, closely followed by Canada. In contrast, the highest salary reported in India was just over $50,000, and average years of experience landed at about 9. 

The survey was yet another display of disparate demographics within the developer community. Over 75% of respondents identified as White or European, while no other race and ethnicity group exceeded 10% of the surveyed population. 

Additionally, nearly 92% of respondents identify themselves as male. The U.S. has the highest percentage of gender minorities, but that number is still low at just above 9%.

The results shed more light on a diversity problem within the industry that many have called attention to of late. Stack Overflow included in its overview of the demographic results, “We have considerable work to do to ensure our platform is inclusive and that our survey is representative of developers everywhere.”