Stack Overflow is one of the biggest and most popular tools for developers and once a year the site conducts a rather large user survey to get the lay of the land. A few days ago, Stack Overflow posted the results of their 2016 Developer Survey that had 50,000 responses from 173 countries. The results are always interesting for all categories, but at least for Windows Phone things are nosediving.

Some of the highlights from their write-up are sobering: 0.1% of respondents consider themselves Windows Phone Mobile Developers (only 59 respondents)

By gender, 0.0% Windows Phone developers are female

Under 'Trending Tech' on Stack Flow Windows Phone dropped 65.2% (iOS +3.1%, Android +2%)

By next year's survey, fewer than 50% of developers may be using Windows (26.2% are on Mac OS X)

Mobile Developers, who know the iOS ecosystem, seem to earn about $10,000 more on average than Android Developers Now, in fairness many developers consider themselves 'cross-platform' and not 'Windows Phone only.' There, around 8.4% of respondents classify themselves as Android, iOS, and Windows Phone cross-platform developers. Not Windows Phone but Windows 10? Likewise, developers for just Windows Phone and not, say, Windows 10 as a whole is becoming much rarer both by design and reduced market share. Developers instead can target all of Windows 10 using many languages like C, C++, C#. In that sense, a drop in those aligning themselves as just 'Windows Phone' is expected. Best VPN providers 2020: Learn about ExpressVPN, NordVPN & more