D Users Survey: Primary OS?

Bruno Medeiros via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 30 06:27:07 PDT 2014


On 29/05/2014 22:12, Dicebot wrote:
> On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 18:24:57 UTC, Tom Browder via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> Has anyone done a survey of the primary OS of D users?
>>
>> I (a D newbie) use Debian Linux (64-bit), but I get the feeling that
>> many (if not most) users are on some version of Windows.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> -Tom
>
> When similar question was asked during one of DConf talks vast majority
> raised their hands as Linux users ;)
>
> It is not that surprising considering D currently is most mature for all
> kinds of services and server-side applications and this is domain of
> Linux supreme uncontested rule.

That might have some influence (the kind of apps that people are 
making), but I disagree that it's the main factor.

I suspect the poorer Windows D toolchain support  is a bigger influence.

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