What Developers Really Think: State of JS 2025 Survey Results

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The State of JavaScript 2025 survey results are in this week, and there’s some givens and some surprises this year. Givens: Vite and Vitest continue to be favorites and devs want more native TS features built into the language. Surprises: ChatGPT usage declined, no one’s using Windsurf, and Bun is the third most-used JS runtime. And thanks for making us the most written-in podcast of the survey! We appreciate it! An 8 month study conducted by the Harvard Business Review reports AI tools don’t shrink work for employees, they actually intensify it. Employees work faster, take on more tasks, and work longer hours, which sounds good on the surface, but can lead to burnout, cognitive fatigue, and lower quality work over time. And there’s yet another new React2Shell flaw that’s being exploited by the ILOVEPOOP toolkit to scan and target vulnerable Next.js and RSC environments. Please everyone, keep an eye out for new hacks and patches to try and keep your web apps safer. For this week’s Lightning News, there was an ad that ran during the Super Bowl for the website ai.com and it turns out to be the largest publicly disclosed domain name purchase ever at a whopping $70M(!), and Adobe Acrobat can now turn PDF docs into podcasts at the click of a button (and it’s not half bad for being completely AI generated).