April 2024 Survey

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+# Survey April 2024
+
+## Demographics
+
+- Where are you from? (countries list if possible - or open question)
+  - Country
+
+- How long have you been working with Node.js? (numbers list from 0 to 10+)
+
+- In what kind of organizations are you working in?
+  - big tech
+  - company
+  - startup
+  - university
+  - individual
+  - other
+
+- If working in a company, in which sector does your company operate? (single choice - Other should give an input)
+  - Energy
+  - Materials
+  - Industrials
+  - Health Care
+  - Financials
+  - Information Technology
+  - Communication Services
+  - Utilities
+  - Real Estate
+  - Other?
+
+## Node.js Usage
+
+- Which groups do you identify with? (multiple choice)
+  - Direct end users: Users who run tools themselves
+  - Application operators: Service and infrastructure providers
+  - Application developers: Frontend tools consumers, backend server authors, tools authors
+  - Library & package authors: Users who write libraries and packages to be included on other applications
+  - Node.js core maintainers: Developers working directly on Node.js, individuals participating in Working Groups
+  - Organization with investments in Node.js (eg: Enterprises, Gouvernement bodies, Startups, Non-profit, Education, Security)
+
+- Are you part of a group not covered ? If yes which one ? (open question)
+
+- What is your use cases of Node.js ? (multiple choice) (open question - Other should give an input)
+  - Cli tools
+  - Testing
+  - Development of APIs with Microservices
+  - Development of APIs with Serverless
+  - Development of APIs with Other
+  - Building static front end applications
+  - Deploying front end applications (Next.js, Remix, etc...)
+  - Script and automation (bots, scrapers)
+  - Proxy
+  - other
+
+## What Node.js binaries do you use
+
+- What is your Operating System for your local development environment ? (single choice - Other should give an input)
+  - Linux
+  - Windows
+  - macOS
+  - Linux with Docker
+  - Windows with Docker
+  - macOS with Docker
+  - Windows with WSL
+  - Other?
+
+- What is your Operating System in which you are running Node.js in production ? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
+  - Linux/Unix
+  - Windows
+  - macOS
+  - Linux with Docker
+  - Windows with Docker
+  - macOS with Docker
+  - Other?
+
+- What architecture is the machine you are running Node.js in production? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
+  - x64
+  - x32
+  - arm
+  - ppc
+  - s390
+  - Don't know
+  - Other?
+
+- How do you get your `node` executables? (multiple choice – Other should give an input)
+  - With a Node.js version manager: nvm, n, nave, nvs, volta, etc.
+  - Using the official installer
+  - Using package managers like npm or yarn and install Node.js as a package
+  - Using a system package manager: apt-get, brew, dnf, yum …
+  - Downloading binaries directly from Nodejs.org
+  - Building Node.js from Source
+  - Other
+
+- What package manager do you use ? (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
+  - npm
+  - yarn v1
+  - yarn modern (2+)
+  - cnpm
+  - pnpm
+  - Other?
+
+- Which version manager do you use (multiple choice - Other should give an input)
+  - none
+  - nvm
+  - n
+  - asdf
+  - fnm
+  - nodenv
+  - nvs
+  - volta
+  - Other?
+
+- How do you manage the package manager for your project? (multiple choice – Other should give an input)
+  - I use one version installed globally for all my projects.
+  - I use a tool to pick a specific version per project (e.g. Corepack, asdf, …).
+  - I use containers.
+  - Other?
+
+## Project Priorities and Direction
+
+- Which of the current [Technical Priorities](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/main/doc/contributing/technical-priorities.md) are important to you ? (multiple choice)
+  - Modern HTTP
+  - Suitable types for end-users
+  - Documentation
+  - WebAssembly
+  - ESM
+  - Support for features from the latest ECMAScript spec
+  - Observability
+  - Permissions/policies/security model
+  - Better multithreaded support
+  - Single Executable Applications
+  - TypeScript Support
+
+- Are there technical priorities that you believe are missing (open question)
+
+- What is important to you ? (multiple choice)
+  - Good understanding of the direction of the project
+  - Ability to affect the direction of the project
+  - Consumable APIs and docs
+  - Predictable and stable releases
+  - Innovation at a consumable pace
+  - Easy Installation
+  - Easy issue reporting, resolution and collaboration
+  - Broad deployment platform support
+  - Broad development platform support
+  - Consistent and intuitive error handling
+  - Runtime diagnostic tooling
+  - Development time diagnostic tooling
+  - Relevant APIs in core
+  - Module/dependency info and management
+  - Ways to fund their work
+  - Reasonable resource usage/performance
+  - Good security and CVE practices
+  - Good CI infrastructure and experience in the project
+  - Supportive Collaborators and Environment in the project
+  - Better ways to build consensus in the project
+  - Easy contribution workflow
+  - Ability to embed and bundle the Node.js runtime
+  - A well maintained and secure standard library
+  - Assets that show Node.js is a good choice
+
+- What is important to you that is not in this list? (open question)
+
+## Technical Questions
+
+- Regardless of how your code is written in its original form, when it runs in production, does it contain ES module syntax (`import`/`export`)?
+  - Yes
+  - No
+
+- For those of you wishing to use ESM in an existing application, what have been the pain points or blockers preventing you from doing so (if any)? (open question)
+
+- Are you using the following experimental features of Node.js (multiple choice)?
+  - Corepack
+  - Async Hooks
+  - Permission model / Policies
+  - Single Executable Application
+  - Startup Snapshot
+  - Loader hooks (`--loader` or `module.register()`)
+  - Network import (`import 'http://...'`)
+  - WASI
+  - VM Modules (`--experimental-vm-modules`)
+  - Watch mode (`--watch`)
+  - WebSocket client
+  - Trace events (`--trace-event-categories` or `node:trace_events`)
+  - Dotenv (`--env-file`)
+  - Import attributes
+
+- Are you using the following new stable features (multiple choice):
+- Test runner (`node:test`)
+- Web Crypto (`globalThis.crypto` or `crypto.webcrypto`)
+- Web Streams (`node:stream/web`)
+- Fetch
+
+- Do you encounter any recurring issues when using Node.js that you would like to share with us ? (open question)