Developers prefer open source tools

New research shows that 98 percent of developers use open source tools at work, with 56 percent revealing that more than half of their development tools are open source, and 18 percent using only open source tools. The study from code collaboration platform GitLab also shows that more than half of developers (55 percent) are able to choose the tools they work with. When asked about the tools and techniques that are most important to them, 92 percent say distributed version control systems (Git repositories) are very or extremely important for their everyday work followed by continuous integration (77 percent),… [Continue Reading]