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# 2016 Most Popular Technologies / Programming Language per Developer Type - Survey of fifty thousand developers
- URL: https://developerinsider.co/most-popular-technologies-per-dev-type/
- Published: 2016-03-18T09:24:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-01T15:32:52.000Z
- Author: Vineet Choudhary
- Tags: News

The results of Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 is out. Based on the response of 56,033 developers, we are able to get a good idea of the most popular technologies being used by the developers. Just like last year, JavaScript topped the list of most used technologies once again, followed by SQL Server, Java, and C#.

### Full-Stack Developer

![](https://github.com/developerinsider/developer-insider-content/blob/master/Post%20Images/Wiki%20Insider/18-03-2016/Full-Stack.png?raw=true)

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### Front-End Developer

![](https://github.com/developerinsider/developer-insider-content/blob/master/Post%20Images/Wiki%20Insider/18-03-2016/Front-End.png?raw=true)

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### Back-End Developer

![](https://github.com/developerinsider/developer-insider-content/blob/master/Post%20Images/Wiki%20Insider/18-03-2016/Back-End.png?raw=true)

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### Mobile Developer (Android, iOS, Universal Windows Platform, and Multi-Platform)

![](https://github.com/developerinsider/developer-insider-content/blob/master/Post%20Images/Wiki%20Insider/18-03-2016/Mobile.png?raw=true)

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### Developer with a Statistics or Mathematics Background

![](https://github.com/developerinsider/developer-insider-content/blob/master/Post%20Images/Wiki%20Insider/18-03-2016/Math%20%26%20Data.png?raw=true)

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### Student

![](https://github.com/developerinsider/developer-insider-content/blob/master/Post%20Images/Wiki%20Insider/18-03-2016/Students.png?raw=true)

So, JavaScript is the most commonly used programming language on earth. Even Back-End developers are more likely to use it than any other language.

Source- [Stackoverflow Developer Survey Results 2016](https://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016?ref=developerinsider.co)