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I think I'm late to the party on this one, since somehow I never saw these results until today.
<https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/cpp/>

Comments in :thread: about how these results relate to my thoughts on the C/C++ backend that I'm puttering along with

*32% use Google Test, 11% use Catch*

No surprise here with these being the top 2. Definite candidates for the `cc_tests` target

*28% don't write tests for Embedded*

That number feels WAYYYY too low from my experience

*~75% don't use 3rd party libs or compile/download out-of-band of the project*

Depressingly unsurprising here, but what surprised me here was `vcpkg` and `conan` so rarely used. I'd gotten the impression that these were a "thing" nowadays.

*55% use CMake*

Not surprised this is the most common. It feels like the most valuable plugin, but I wonder whether the most value would be from a cmake-runner type of plugin, or a cmake-migrator (via `tailor`)

*Top 3 most used programming languages in conjunction with C++:*
*python, C, shell*

... Hmm... If there was only some sort of build system that could `fmt`, `lint`, type `check`, and eventually compile those languages :thinking_face: