7 Development Trends Entering 2012

Zend recently published its Developer Trend Survey.

Zend provides a framework, as well cloud services, to PHP developers - so some of the data comes from population that is heavily connected to the PHP world.

7 interesting trends:

Mobile development is leading the pack.

Clouds are mainstream

... and AWS is the preferred one

PHP is fueling job growth [indeed.com data]

... and 4 out of 5 PHP developers are also using javascript

Pretty much everyone listens to music while coding

... and Metallica is the #1 most popular band to code to