D Users Survey: Primary OS?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 09:25:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-05-30 00:13, Kiith-Sa wrote:
>
>> Or if you're working on tools, don't
>> make them for $OS, make them cross-platform. (I boycott
>> non-crossplatform tools
>> by default)
>
> That's not so easy, depending on what you're doing. Some things 
> are done in completely different ways depending on the 
> operating system. If you're luck you can code two versions, one 
> for Windows and one for Posix. Low level stuff is usually 
> platform dependent, even if it fall under one of the above 
> categories. For example, getting the full path to the currently 
> running executable looks completely different on Windows, OS X, 
> Linux and FreeBSD.

But the basic code should compile. We've just had the case when a 
coworker tried my code on Windows (I develop on Linux). It 
compiled with the latest version of dmd. No questions asked. When 
it comes to system stuff it's:

version (Windows) {
   // some odd shit
}

version (OS X) {
   // some other odd shit
}

version (POSIX) {
   // normal stuff
}

But these are little things like the "tmp" directory and so on. D 
usually compiles on all the major platforms.