Stack Overflow is noteworthy in the value it provides to the practitioner community. However, concerns have also been expressed around the quality of content that is included on this website.

An academic paper [PDF] published in 2018 identified a code snippet Lundblad posted on the site as the most copied Java code taken from StackOverflow and then re-used in open source projects.

The Stack Overflow Developer Survey asked developers about the programming languages they like working with. Here's what their favorite languages are.

84% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow either use or plan to use AI tools, while 64% cited ‘almost right’ AI output and debugging AI code as their top frustrations.