A tech stack represents a combination of technologies a company uses in order to build and run an application or project. The most popular technology skill in the web development tech stack in 2022 was HTML, chosen by nearly ** percent of respondents. CSS ranked second, being preferred by almost ********** respondents.

Node.js overtook React.js to become the most used web framework among software developers worldwide, as of 2024. According to the survey, 40.8 percent of respondents reported to be using Node.js, while around 39.5 percent were using React.js. Web framework A web framework, or what may sometimes be referred to as a web application framework is a software framework that supports the overall software development of web applications. Web frameworks are utilized to automate menial activities typically performed within web development. In other words, it simplifies the web development process and, therefore, makes it easier to build a website. JavaScript As aforementioned, before being overtaken by React.js, jQuery had been the most used web framework out of the millions of software developers throughout the world. Simply put, jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library, that simplifies the usage of JavaScript on websites. While jQuery may be losing popularity, JavaScript still remains one of the most popular programming languages used by software developers worldwide. Throughout the world, programming languages are associated with different salaries. JavaScript programmers are associated with a global salary of 65,580 U.S. dollars, while the salary associated with JavaScript programmers in the United States is significantly more, at 112,000 U.S. dollars.

Interview Questions on the perception of the utility of CQAs like Stack Overflow to software developers. In this study, we focused on the questions highlighted in yellow.

Software engineering Q&A websites (e.g., Stack Overflow), harness the collective expertise of users to address technical queries. Over time, these platforms evolve into valuable repositories of software engineering knowledge. Such repositories serve as essential resources for developers looking for solutions to common programming problems. In Stack Overflow, developers may approach answering questions in various ways. Gaining insight into how developers formulate their answers on Stack Overflow can enhance knowledge sharing and streamline the process of finding solutions. Furthermore, such insights could also inform improvements in Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools to better align generated source code for comprehension and understandability, as AI-generated answers are known to include irrelevant information and hallucinations. In this study, we seek to deepen the understanding of how solutions are presented on Stack Overflow. We conducted an empirical study that investigates programming questions that are answered with a Solution Snippet to understand how a Solution Snippet is presented, and the ways how it should be adapted when it is reused. Our study resulted in two categorizations: 1) eight categories of how Solution Snippets are presented on Stack Overflow answers and 2) five categories of how Solution Snippets could be adapted for reuse. Then, we analyzed these categorizations and discussed the implications. We anticipate that Stack Overflow will remain a valuable resource for the foreseeable future, and the insights revealed in our paper lay the groundwork for improving program comprehension of Solution Snippets on Stack Overflow and GenAI tools.