7 Surprising Ways Coding Changed In The Last 10 Years

Tom Smykowski
5 min readJan 29, 2024
Senior coders talking about Svelte

Software engineering went through some quite interesting changes during the last ten yeara and no one is talking about them

Do you remember 2014? It was a really nice time. Rosetta probe landed on a comet. Pharell Williams released the Happy song. Scientists confirmed that Ceres contains water vapor. These are just three things that happened during that year, and science, especially deep space science played a huge role.

Now, it’s 2024. It brings a natural question about what have happened during that time in computer science, specifically programming.

To learn some facts I’ve compared StackOverflow Developer Survey from several years since 2014 and 2023, because there’s no results for 2024 yet, and the summary results for 2013 aren’t easily available.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

1. Software Developers Started To Work Remotely

In 2014 only 10% of programmers worked fully remotely. In 2023 41% do it. I’d say we got immune to going to an office. It’s interesting because the high number of remote developers is lasting longer than, you know, hiking bans.

2. Programmers Got Older

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Tom Smykowski

Software Engineer & Tech Editor. Top 2% on StackOverflow, 3mil views on Quora. Won Shattered Pixel Dungeon.