D Users Survey: Primary OS?

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 13:37:47 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> 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.

Mind you, D doesn't need omnipotent toolchains. A text editor and 
command line will do. I now use DUB, but you can still get away 
with "$ dmd app.d ..." or shell script. Toolchains and IDE's 
should not be a criterion for evaluating a language. "Oh, D 
doesn't have an IDE / proper toolchain", that doesn't mean the 
language is bad. It actually means that the language is so good, 
it doesn't need them. It's a nice-to-have but not a must have.

Do you have a link to Walter's article? Thanks.