IDC: 40 Percent of Developers Are 'Hobbyists'

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itwbennett writes "A new IDC study has found that 'of the 18.5 million software developers in the world, about 7.5 million — roughly 40 percent — are so-called hobbyist developers,' which by IDC's definition is 'someone who spends 10 hours a month or more writing computer or mobile device programs, even though they are not paid primarily to be a programmer.' Lumped into this group are students, people hoping to strike it rich with mobile apps, and people who code on the job but aren't counted among the developer ranks." http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=IDC%3A+40+Percent+of+Developers+Are+'H obbyists'%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F18WUalo) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F13%2F12%2F20%2F1420258%2Fidc-40-percent-of-developers-are-hobbyists%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Df acebook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/12/20/1420258/idc-40-percent-of-developers-are-hobbyists?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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