The yearly RAD Studio developers survey is closing in 2 days. If you can find the time to participate, we'd appreciate. And here are a couple of tidbits from it.

But first of all (and before you continue reading) if you haven't already done so, take the survey at www.surveymonkey.com/r/FGCCYNY . We know it is time long and time consuming and really appreciate your input. If you don't have the time, we understand.

Now, if you have taken the survey and had the patience to go to the end, you might have noticed a fun, trivia question asking for your favorite RAD Studio variable or type name. These are the answers so far:

  • Global variable ReportMemoryLeaksOnShutdown is winning with 41% of the votes
  • The exception type EProgrammerNotFound is close second with 37% of the votes

I'm really disappointed that the enumerated values Elf, Dwarf, and Wizard in TDeviceClass got less than 8%. I like those and the way they are documented in the help file.

More seriously, we generally don't share survey data but there are a couple of (temporary) results worth mentioning, considering these are not absolute facts but depend on those who responded, of course, who are mostly "active" customers even if often using versions released years ago)
  • FireDAC is now the most used database access library
  • Microsoft SQL server and Mongo DB are the preferred relational and NoSQL databases
  • Parallel programming library is the favorite RTL extensions done in recent years

Overall, we had a good response rate, but, again, we'd appreciate having even more. And a few extra votes for the elves ;-)