Poll of the week: main OS and compiler

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-02 08:47, Marco Leise wrote:
> Am 01.03.2012, 21:26 Uhr, schrieb Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com>:
>
>> On 2012-03-01 15:40, Marco Leise wrote:
>>> Since everyone loves polls, and the question comes up now and then: What
>>> is your main development platform for D ?
>>>
>>> http://www.easypolls.net/poll.html?p=4f4f7d25c2e1b0e40b0ac494
>>
>> Why bundle Linux and FreeBSD in one option?
>
> I considered the two 'similar enough' from a point of view of
> architecture and organization to merge them (aka Unix-like). I admit,
> that I never used FreeBSD though.
> Anyway the numbers nicely show, that neither Windows nor
> Linux(-compatible) are underrepresented in the D community. My personal
> opinion is that the number of Windows users is actually low, considering
> its market share and other surveys like this:
> http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2010/10/27/developer-os-preferences/

It depends on how you see it. Both FreeBSD and Mac OS X are built on a 
BSD foundation but Linux is not. On the other hand FreeBSD and Linux 
uses ELF binaries but Mac OS X use Mach-O.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg