D Users Survey: Primary OS?

flamencofantasy via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 30 07:10:29 PDT 2014


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.

I thought Microsoft had a document describing the format.


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