State of Learning to Code 2024 Report
blog.boot.devAuthor here! If you have any questions I'll try to monitor this today and answer anything I can
Love me some good data dump c: And those vim users numbers tho... good, but not enough!
I was expecting <2% - I'll be interested to see if this goes up or down over time... I imagine it's fairly dependent on whether the platform sees growth with more experienced vs less experienced devs
Do you have a prediction for how these trends might change in 2025?
Hmmm... only the things that are really in our control. For example, I think adding time-on-lesson as another metric for the difficulty calculation will make certain courses and projects jump up quite a bit.
I also think that prompt versioning will give us some interesting stuff to look at next year - and of course encouraging more up/down votes on the AI assistant
I guess I will say that if Boot dev keeps growing at this rate, I expect vim mode usage to go down a bit, just because I'd expect the growth to come more from beginners than what we've had in the past