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I must say I have rather soft hearth for the StackOverflow Developer Surveys. Since I learned about it during university I'm on the edge of my sit every year to see what's going on in the industry from the developer perspective. In my opinion knowing development trends and preferences is also a huge advantage for leaders and managers. It allows you to hire better, improve developer experience or just help your teams have more fun at work. This year I'd like to share my few personal takeaways from 2024 edition of Developer Survey.

Software development tends to be a lot like cooking. You can follow the recipe, but sometimes you end up with something that just doesn’t taste right. In code, we tend to call these bad “flavours” code smells. They do not crush your app immediately, but over time they make the codebase harder to work with.