'Which languages would you like to learn?' - Swift (29 percent), Go (23 percent) and Rust (23 percent).Other highlights of the survey, conducted in the March/April time-frame, include: Rather remarkable, however, that Panic's Nova editor has gathered quite some friends, considering it is still very new.' In the same way, the dominance of Visual Studio Code was to be expected. Or maybe it's not that surprising, as Tower said: 'With lots of Swift developers in our community, it's no surprise that Xcode is so popular. In fact, about 57 percent (percentages are rounded off) of respondents said they use VS Code, followed by Xcode (34 percent), Sublime Text (15 percent), IntelliJ (13 percent), PhpStorm (9 percent) and Nova (5 percent).

While much of the survey report might not be of prime interest to Visual Studio Magazine readers who are traditionally Windows-centric, one perhaps-surprising finding is Microsoft's open source-based, cross-platform Visual Studio Code is the preferred text editor, beating out Apple's own Xcode. Tower, noted for its Git client, recently surveyed more than 4,000 Mac-using developers to ask about things like their favorite tech, programming languages and development tools.

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