Alan Hamlett
Happy New Year!
In 2024, more than 500k developers spent a combined 59 million hours programming, tracked with WakaTime plugins. The average person spent 51 minutes per day programming, a slight increase from last year.
Each year we release a personalized coding report showing your accomplishments over the last year.
This year I was excited to find out my personal top language changed from Python to TypeScript, because my new project wonderful.dev uses the T3 stack Next.js, Drizzle ORM, tRPC, TailwindCSS, and TypeScript.
We also include average trends for all WakaTime devs showing the most used languages, IDEs, and operating systems.
These trends come from aggregating the WakaTime personal dashboard metrics when a developer installs one of our IDE plugins.
We can find new trends among software engineers using this data, for example this year a new AI-powered editor is gaining momentum: Cursor.
There’s more exciting data below… but first, a quick list of new features released in 2024.
New Features & Milestones
🚀 We’re launching wonderful.dev!
Claim your dev profile at wonderful.dev/yourname and connect with interesting companies.
💻 Windows Desktop App
We’ve released a native Windows app that tracks your time in any app. The Windows app lives in your system tray, and works by tracking the focused window title. It’s perfect for filling in the gaps in your activity when not using a supported IDE.
🕑 Manually Add Time
Ever wanted to add some missing time to your dashboard? Now you can manually add tracked time from your project’s dashboard.
Programming stats for 2024
This year we started surveying our users asking for job descriptions, so you’ll notice extra charts showing the breakdown by job titles below each main chart.
Top languages for 2024
Top editors for 2024
Top operating systems used
See your personalized report for 2024 here:
View your personalized 2024 stats
These aggregated 2024 stats are available as JSON, and also available for previous years.
