With the 2018.3 release, Educational Products bring more learning opportunities for anyone interested in Kotlin and Python. The updated version also enhances the performance, user interface, and user experience of our IDEs to help learners focus on learning and teachers on teaching.
Data Analysis, Machine Learning, and AI are rapidly growing in popularity and drawing more and more attention in tech news. How does the data science world look today and how is this industry sector evolving? What types of activities are data scientists primarily involved in? What programming languages and tools are in use? To answer these and many other important questions, last spring JetBrains conducted a Data Science Survey collecting responses from over 1,600 data scientists living in the US, Europe, Japan, and China.
We are super-excited to share with you some of our incredible findings, along with the raw survey data which you can use to draw your own conclusions!
Did you know that Python is now the most popular language among data analysts and engineers? How about that most people assume that Python will remain the primary programming language for data science for the next 5 years? Learn more about these and other insights in the survey infographic:
View the results of Data Science Survey 2018
We distributed the survey via targeted ads on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. We filtered out those replying “I’m not involved in data analysis” with the first questions. In the US, Japan, and China, we collected 400 complete and valid sets of responses from each country, and we used quotas to get another 400 responses from European countries.
Important Note: Some inevitable bias may be present since the survey was organized and promoted by JetBrains and some JetBrains users might have been more willing to participate.
We couldn’t include all the potential findings in the report without it becoming bloated. If you have any specific questions that are unanswered, send them to us and we’ll dig into the data for you for an answer. Or if you want to delve into the data yourself, we’re also sharing the raw survey data, which anyone can use to arrive at their own conclusions and additional findings. PDF version of the infographic is also available if you’d like to print it out or read it as a file.
We hope the survey findings will help all of us better understand the current state of the Data Science community, see the big picture, and get answers to some of our burning questions. We’d be very interested to learn about your findings! Please share them on Twitter or other social media, mentioning @jetbrains with the #datasciencesurvey hashtag. We’re also extremely open to any suggestions and feedback related to this survey so we can run an even better one next time.
Finally, we would like to just say a huge thanks to the participants of the survey!
JetBrains
The Drive to Develop
Early this year, we ran our second yearly Developer Ecosystem Survey to reveal the most significant facts about developers and technologies.
Since this June, we’ve been sharing these Infographics showcasing the most interesting results and insights from an even broader range of developer topics than last year.
As the study consisted of over 150 questions, it was impossible to cover them all in the Infographics. So now, same as last year, we are publishing the anonymized raw data from the survey. If you’re interested in discovering development trends, be our guest – go right ahead, dig deeper into the data, draw your own conclusions and glean additional insights like we did!
What kind of interesting facts did we dig up? Well, we found out that JetBrains customers code for 5 hours (21%) a week more on average than those who don’t use JetBrains tools! At the same time, they get 15 more minutes of sleep (that’s 5%) than the average coder. Fascinating stuff! Maybe it’s because JetBrains users love programming and sleeping, but programming more!
Before analyzing these data, please keep in mind the following facts about the sample:
Get Developer Ecosystem Survey Raw Data
Thanks everyone one more time for participating in our study. Your voice matters!
Don’t miss the chance to participate in Developer Ecosystem Survey 2019 – join the JetBrains Survey Panel today.
Happy analyzing!
JetBrains
The Drive to Develop
We have resolved a series of security issues in our products in the third quarter of 2018. Here’s a summary report that contains a description of each issue and the version in which they were resolved.
We’re thrilled to introduce you to Datalore, an intelligent web application for data analysis and visualization in Python, as it officially reaches version 1.0! Ever since the public beta release last February, we’ve been working hard to implement a lot of new ideas based on your suggestions.
The beta version provided core application features: a smart code editor with context-dependent suggestions, incremental recalculations, and built-in tools and libraries for machine learning. Here’s what Datalore offers for data scientists:
You can meet the JetBrains team at many tech events all over the world. But today we’re offering something special – the chance to meet the Kotlin team from the comfort of your own home with KotlinConf 2018 Live.
We are happy to invite you to our online event.
Join the live stream on October 4-5. Learn about the new things coming in Kotlin from the Keynote by Andrey Breslav, and ask your questions to the Kotlin team and leaders of the community through the KotlinConf 2018 Closing Panel.
We are opening the event with the keynote by Andrey Breslav. Be sure not to miss this keynote, sign-up and we will send you a reminder right before we go live.
The Live track will carry on with the talks from the leads of the JetBrains team, as well as authors and contributors to the ecosystem, and enthusiasts from the Kotlin community. Jake Wharton, Christina Lee, Venkat Subramaniam, Alicia Karr are among the speakers. Check out the full list of Live talks at KotlinConf 2018 day one and day two.
We encourage you to join the Closing Panel, the final session of the event where we will answer questions from the attendees and from people who have posted their questions online. To ask your questions to the Closing Panel, post them on Twitter using a hashtag #kc18ask. You can start posting them right away and continue until October 5th 5:15 CEST.
KotlinConf 2018 is the second Kotlin-specific conference to be hosted by JetBrains and Trifork. Last year the event took place in San Francisco and gathered together more than 1,000 enthusiastic attendees and 50 speakers. Check out what it was like last year.
You can also check out the recordings of the talks from KotlinConf 2017 on our YouTube channel.
Please welcome Ring UI 1.0!
Last year we introduced Ring UI library, an open-source library for web-based products. At JetBrains, we use Ring UI components for our web-based products like YouTrack, Hub, TeamCity, and Upsource. We keep working to improve the library and today we are happy to introduce its major release.
It has been about four years now since we first launched our free Student License Program. More than 860 000 students worldwide actively use JetBrains tools for educational purposes. A student can request their free subscription at https://jetbrains.com/student, and then renew it annually for free until they graduate. Upon graduation, JetBrains provides all the students with a 25% graduation discount.
From the very start of the JetBrains Student Program, we have offered three options to prove eligibility for a free educational license: an email address in a domain which is known by JetBrains as belonging to an educational institution, an ISIC card, or an official document which proves that you are a student.
We are happy to announce a new, fourth, option today, which aims to help make it simpler and more widely available for students to get their free JetBrains Student Packs.
Free educational JetBrains license is now a part of GitHub Student Developer Pack
Many students from around the world benefit from the GitHub Student Developer Pack, which GitHub created with some of their partners and friends to give students free access to the best developer tools.
Effective as of today, everybody who has a GitHub Student Developer Pack can get a free JetBrains Student Pack, which gives a free year-long subscription to all the JetBrains desktop tools, including IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, PyCharm Professional, CLion, and Rider.
If you do not have a free JetBrains Student Pack yet, but have your GitHub account which GitHub has already verified as belonging to a student, please open the GitHub Student Developer Pack page (https://education.github.com/pack), click on the card with the JetBrains logo, and authenticate with your GitHub credentials. You will be guided to a page on the JetBrains website where you can request your free educational license for JetBrains tools, you will get a series of two messages from the JetBrains team asking you to confirm your request and then to activate your educational JetBrains license.
Renewal of free educational license for JetBrains tools.
All licenses provided as part of the Student License Program are valid for one year.
As long as you’re a student or teacher, you’re welcome to keep taking advantage of the Student License Program and renew your Student License for the next year, free. Watch for an email reminder from us sent out one week before your license expires and click the enclosed link to renew. Alternatively, use the dedicated link in your JetBrains account.
Last week on the 256th day of the year individual developers and organizations all over the world celebrated International Programmers’ Day.
We, at JetBrains, with so many incredible developers around us couldn’t just sit back and let this day pass without some kind of recognition. We asked all the programmers who follow us on social media (mostly Twitter) to use the hashtag #MyDriveToDevelop and tell the world what programming meant to them – what was their “Drive To Develop”.
As for the results, developers from over 25 countries on all of the continents (with the exception of Antarctica) posted their own personal stories.
We want to thank everyone who took part, we read every single one of the #MyDriveToDevelop hashtag tweets and comments and were truly fascinated by how much the programmer profession means to so many of you.
It would be impossible to share all the comments in this blog post and also unfair to post just a few and call them the best because all of the tweets and comments were amazing, full of warmth and consideration. So what we’ve done is prepare this cloud of words to depict the most frequently used words and give you an insight into what drives developers with their work.
Each and every programmer has their own #MyDriveToDevelop, however there are some commonalities that we’ve noticed.
Making a difference
Creating opportunities, simplifying the processes, building something that others find valuable.
Collaborating with others
Connecting the community, making cool things together, sharing knowledge with others, helping other developers to achieve the goals they have.
Being a challenger
Staying curious and hungry to experiment, improve and constantly evolve. Turn routine into fun and complexity to simplicity.
Being a dreamer
Making dreams come true, turning ideas into things that have a purpose.
Being a superhero
Having unlimited possibilities, solving complex real life problems, improving everyone’s life, making the world a better place with help of the software!
With the Drive To Develop nothing is impossible.
We at JetBrains could not agree more, all the things people mentioned about why people love programming, all resonate deeply with all of us in this incredible field of work. There is something that drives us as programmers to seek out the challenges, make solutions, and have an impact on the world, regardless of where you are in the world. We are just so glad to have a community of similarly driven people.
Stay passionate, stay curious, and may your #MyDriveToDevelop always be with you!
JetBrains
The Drive to Develop
PS: At JetBrains, we celebrated the Programmers’ Day not only online but also offline, in the company of great colleagues in each of the JetBrains offices. We had some snacks, drinks, and games. And of course cake!
Ever since Toolbox App 1.0 first came about back in October 2016, more and more of our customers are finding that using it makes it even easier for them to access their projects across JetBrains IDEs and update all their IDEs to the newest versions (including EAPs). We want to thank you for supporting and encouraging us to make Toolbox App even better.
Based on your feedback we developed and launched the following features in our previous releases:
And now we have better integration into all the different OS
Well, it’s now time for something new. We understand how important it is for you to see the release notes before installing the version updates. Please find the What’s New in the new 1.11 Toolbox App release. Review the release notes before you update right inside the app as soon as a new version update becomes available.
Updated UI
We have also updated the Settings UI by removing the “apply” button. All changes are now applied immediately.
This release comes with the usual batch of bug fixes as well. The most noticeable of which is that Gradle support now works correctly in IntelliJ IDEA when started from Toolbox App on Windows. See the full list of release notes.
We love your feedback and will continue improving Toolbox App to make it more reliable for you. Follow us on Twitter to get the latest up-to-date news and useful tips.
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