[OT] Regarding most used operating system among devs

weaselcat via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 8 09:19:43 PDT 2015


On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 08:59:04 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote:
> From StackOverflow's 2015 Developer Survey [1]:
>
> "For the third year in a row, we asked respondents which 
> operating system they use the most. Windows maintains the 
> lion's share of the developer operating system market, while 
> Mac appears to have overtaken the Linuxes among active Stack 
> Overflow devs.
>
> Linux may be a small player on the consumer market, with just 
> 1.5% of global desktop operating system share, but it's a go-to 
> OS for developers."
>
> Interestingly, from the "Text editor" question we learn that 
> most used ones are "NotePad++" and "Sublime Text" (and not 
> Visual Studio) which I know are favs among webdevelopers that 
> are not used to IDEs (as debugging happens in web browsers).
>
> This correlates with with "Most popular technologies" results 
> too.
>
> To sum up:
>
> Please give more attention to Windows developers like myself ;)
>
>
> [1]http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2015

Poll has a windows bias due to stackoverflows focus on .NET, 
which is extremely overrepresented on SO(see: redmonk)


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