The results are in! 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey
Highlights for the BEAM community:
- 2.7% of respondents report having used Elixir for “extensive development work”, up from 2.1% last year
- Similarly, 1.5% of the respondents used Erlang, up from 0.9% last year
- Gleam and Elixir share the 2nd and 3rd spots for most admired programming languages
- Phoenix is the most admired web framework in 2025, a trend since 2023
Erlang and Elixir used to be the top paying technologies in the 2024 survey, but they seem to have dropped the category entirely in 2025. Typically SO release the data sets for download later, so perhaps we’ll get to see more in the future for the categories not presented on the website.
Another curious meta-insight is that this year’s survey got 49_000+ respondents, last year’s survey got 65_000+, and 2023 boasted answers from 90_000+ developers.
