What are the tools that Ethereum developers love most? What are the issues that they care about most?

Written by: Donnager

The Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) has just released a survey report on the smart contract languages, development tools, clients, and services used by enterprise-level Ethereum developers.

The survey results show that the largest number of developers use Solidity, accounting for 87.4%, followed by Web3.js (71.8%), Truffle (69.2%), Javascript (66.7%), OpenZeppelin (59%), Infura (56.4%), Remix (53.8%), IPFS (48.7%) and Java (43.6%).

These are the most commonly used programming languages ​​and development tools by developers:

Solidity (87.4%): The most commonly used smart contract programming language by Ethereum ecosystem developers
Web3.js (71.8%): Ethereum JavaScript API toolkit
Truffle (69.2%): Ethereum smart contract development tool
Javascript (66.7%): Programming language
OpenZeppelin (59%): provides a set of standard smart contracts
Infura (56.4%): API tools for developers
Remix (53.8%): Ethereum Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
IPFS (48.7%): decentralized storage protocol
Java (43.6%): Programming language

EEA surveyed 42 developers in total, of which 73% were enterprise software developers or architects working on Ethereum applications. In addition, developers said that Ethereum currently faces many challenges, including high gas fees, scalability, privacy, immature Java tools, and interaction issues.

However, since the sample size is not large enough, there are only two issues that appear frequently in everyone's feedback: gas fees and expansion issues. There is no significant trend in other issues for the time being. The EEA may continue to conduct similar questionnaires in a few months.

Therefore, the EEA also believes that popularizing Layer 2 (second-layer network technology) technology for developers may be a way to solve the problems of gas fees and scalability.