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Can you guess what the most popular search term on dev.to is so far this year?

Ben Halpern on January 22, 2018

Please only make one guess per comment. Once I reply to you with yes or no, you can guess more. I'll ignore comments that don't follow that rule.

Let's see who guesses it. 😊

Edit: We have a winner:

πŸŽ‰ LARAVEL πŸŽ‰

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

"Laravel -- The Return of PHP"

That's either a title for an epic-type heroic sequel or a horror movie, depending on how you feel about PHP.

Either way, IT'S BAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK.

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Beeblebrox

I mean if this is coming back, oooook... ;))

Laravel, php - Worldwide, 2004 - present - g.co/trends/XaZtx

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Valentin Silvestre

Go Symfony...

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Stidges

Laravel

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Ben Halpern

We have a winner!

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Beeblebrox

barely heard about it... Guess this will put it even more apart from other terms :))

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Laud B

hmm, interesting, I do know a number of Laravel devs here in Ghana and in Nigeria as well.

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Beeblebrox

wonder how PHP is doing tho, cause google search trends are going down for it...

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Arandi LΓ³pez

Laravel has been gaining popularity in Mexico in the last two years. There are more and more devs, as Laravel is PHP dev well done

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Corentin H. ⚑

I was just about to say it! Well done! πŸ‘

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Ben Halpern • Edited

Hint: Here is this technology's Google search trend over time.

I'd also say: This technology is not as universally popular as some others, but mainstream enough that a dedicated pocket could tilt the scales on our site. And I've definitely noticed a fair amount of users of this tech on dev.to.

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Ben Halpern

I'll also add that, while this tech is always top 15-20, its position at number 1 for this time period is kind of an outlier.

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Ben Halpern

Another hint: It's a web framework.

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Ben Halpern

Guesses are closer after this hint. I was surprised by this answer, though as I mentioned, it's always fairly popular.

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Aaroh Mankad

I think you searched the wrong thing haha.

laraval vs laravel (correct spelling)

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Ben Halpern

Whoops, spelled it wrong in the edit. It's spelled correctly in the analytics.

 
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Dian Fay

Awhile back I noticed their testing framework relies on composing data fixtures. It's a really cool idea I'm glad is getting some attention, I'd done it myself for some applications but hadn't seen it implemented in a framework yet.

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Vaidehi Joshi

...bitcoin? πŸ™ˆ

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Barry O Sullivan

blockchain

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Highest guess so far, at number 7

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Pablo DΓ­az

Bug

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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NicolΓ‘s Wernli

VueJS

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Aaroh Mankad

Web Development?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Katie Macke

Ruby on Rails

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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David J Eddy

container

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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edujtm

Rust?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Yoann Fleury

Discuss ?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Adele Francois

AngularJS?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Dian Fay

MongoDB

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Nick Taylor

Angular?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Francis Piche

Meteor.js?

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Lode Vanhove

Craft CMS

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Aswath KNM

I honestly thought it was Js or python

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Usama Baig

Whao I am a Laravel Developer from Pakistan and from the past three weeks I've been seriously considering of moving to either Ruby on Rails or Python.

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Aaroh Mankad

Machine Learning

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Pedro Madrid

wordpress?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Josh Dzielak πŸ”†

javascript

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Aaroh Mankad

GraphQL

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Aaroh Mankad

Code

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Pablo DΓ­az

Visual code

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Lloyd Hanneman

"how to"

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Yoann Fleury

Git?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Ryan Edge • Edited

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the_horror

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Amin Arria

Resume

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Meghan (she/her)

Algorithms?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Pedro Madrid

scrum?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Aaroh Mankad

Programmming

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Pedro Madrid

vue?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Corentin H. ⚑

Node.js?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Pedro Madrid

angular?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Adele Francois

Django?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Adele Francois

beginner?

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Damien Cosset

React

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Ben Halpern

Nope. Highest guess so far (passing blockchain) at number 5.

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Nancy Deschenes

docker

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Ben Halpern

Nope. Docker's number 9

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Wesley Ameling

With the search term know.. @ben did you make a bot to reply Nope's are did you have a free evening :P

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Ben Halpern

After a long day it was a fun break.

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Dian Fay

Android

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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Corentin H. ⚑

Dare I say… jQuery? πŸ™Š

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Ben Halpern

Nope

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aurel kurtula

gatsby.js

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Corentin H. ⚑

tutorial?

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Ben Halpern

Nope