Symfony Community Survey 2017 Results

May 5, 2017 • Published by Javier Eguiluz

A few weeks ago, we launched the Symfony Community Survey 2017 to know more about you and how do you use Symfony. We received 2,811 answers and we'd like to thank you all for taking the time to fill in the survey. These results are invaluable for us and they will help us make better decisions.

These are the summarized results:

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Comments

Christopher Hertel Certified said on May 5, 2017 at 16:27

Great! Very interesting!

quick side note: "Do you use OS virtualization or containerization while developing Symfony applications?" is not a yes-or-no question ;)

Javier Eguiluz Certified said on May 5, 2017 at 17:31

@Christopher technically may not be an OR question, but the logic we applied was: do you (container || virtualization) OR (none of that) so that's why we treated as an OR question.

Michael COULLERET said on May 5, 2017 at 18:19

Good overview of the world of Symfony

Tomas Votruba said on May 5, 2017 at 20:04

Thanks for such a nice summary, I love graphs :)

Question to all: what was most surprising result for you?

For me, that 60 % of people go to workshop at least once a 2 months. In our country it's more like ~15 %.

Ricardo de Vries said on May 6, 2017 at 16:30

That is such a nice survey.

@Tomáš Votruba: For me it was that PhpStorm is mainly used for Symfony development.

Javier Eguiluz Certified said on May 7, 2017 at 08:11

@Tomáš, the most surprising results for me were:

83% of developers don't use Symfony-based projects (Drupal, eZ Platform, etc.)
Only 7% of developers don't have side-projects
27% of developers don't contribute back to Symfony for "other reasons" (I'd love to know those "other reasons")
60% of developers train monthly or bi-monthly

Martin said on May 8, 2017 at 06:54

very very nice article, thanks for the sharing with us.

Tony Quilkey said on May 8, 2017 at 09:36

Guess I'll have to wait until I'm on a desktop to view the results, that widget is next to useless on mobile

yurii-symfony said on May 9, 2017 at 02:37

pretty happy jumping on SF bus this year. Trends are looking good. to the last moment I was hoping to see Eclipse as IDE..

Michaël Perrin said on May 9, 2017 at 08:06

#10

@Tomáš Votruba : the most surprising result to me was on the "Do you use OS virtualization or containerization while developing Symfony applications?" question. I am surprised that most of Symfony developers don't use tools like Vagrant or Docker.

Maybe that's related to the fact that a majority uses Linux and they use the same Linux version on their servers. But for Windows and Mac users, I am even more surprised!