JetBrain’s The State of Developer Experience and Developer Productivity survey is out. It’s an oddly, narrowly focused survey. Mostly on metrics used to measure developer experience.
Above, the metrics most used for tracking/rating/metric’ing development..As the conclusion says, measuring DevEx is getting better:
The good news is that companies are getting more serious about tracking developer experience, not just productivity. The drop in irregular DevEx assessments – from 53% in 2024 to 29% in 2025 – shows a positive shift toward more structured and thoughtful measurement.
“DevX” was a big deal a few years ago, but I see it less and less. Perhaps it peaked when Atlassian bought DX. But, I think it happened even earlier. Like everything AI came around and knocked every interest off the board. DevSecOps? Kubernetes? DevEx? Observablity? Nope, no one seems to care.
They’ve to have it published in some weird HTML format instead of PDF, but, whatever.