D Users Survey: Primary OS?

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On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 13:27:10 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> On 29/05/2014 22:12, Dicebot wrote:
>> 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.

When volunteer effort is main development power actual use cases 
drive toolchain enhancements, not other way around. It is not 
like someone intentionally has made better tools for Linux just 
to make Windows people sad.

Also native platform tools being open-source greatly helps in 
building D ones on top. Remember that Walters article about 
adding 64-bit support to DMD? He had to effectively reverse 
engineer object file format to become compatible with Microsoft 
tools.