[OT] Regarding most used operating system among devs

[Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 8 April 2015 at 16:19:44 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> 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)

Most of the enterprise developers are on Windows, even when 
targeting UNIX, it is not only .NET.

Unless one is doing plain C or C++ with their bare bones runtime 
libraries, there are plenty of languages that allow for such 
workflow.

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Paulo