One of our lurkers, @Alex Wein, whipped up this beautiful interactive display based on the community survey. I think you'll enjoy playing with this. https://observablehq.com/@a-lexwein/what-future-of-coding-topics-interest-you-most

It's interesting to me that Tools for Thought / Mind Bicycles is the most popular, because that's one of the least specific to programming. What does everyone make of that?

I think a lot of the people here are fond of the Doug Engelbart line of thinking: computers are tools for augmenting human intellect, for which programming is just a means to an end. How we all arrived at that thinking, I don't know. I arrived there via Bret Victor.

Its also crazy how many lurkers we have, most people that responded to the survey are lurkers!

I don't think that's the case..

is there data about current tools and languages people in here are using?

That's an interesting thought. Something like, "What programming language(s) are you using to build your FoC project(s)?"

Love the programming language question. It would also be cool to do a question about tools for thought in general, but I'm struggling to figure out how to ask it in a useful manner. Maybe someone else can figure out a good way. Here's how I would phrase the problem: When you say "Tools for thought", I personally don't even quite know what that means. E.g., if you were to write a (SEO-title ready) blog post, here are the top ten tools for thought, what would be on that list?

hah, love that the intersection of {PL theory, compilers} x {bret victor} seems to be the smallest