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It is surprising to me, for probably similar reasons that the authors expected. OSX has, for a long time, been the OS of choice for arguably the majority of dev
by jsmeaton 8y ago
It is surprising to me, for probably similar reasons that the authors expected. OSX has, for a long time, been the OS of choice for arguably the majority of developers that aren't developing specifically for windows (.NET etc). OSX has been obviously popular, though I recognise that in the last year there has been a trend of people complaining about OSX and threatening to leave.
I took the survey and I marked both OSX and Linux, because I deploy (local/docker remote/vm) to linux and spend quite some time in linux shells. I think it likely that a lot of windows users would do the same.
To be crystal clear, I wouldn't think that the majority of python developers are using linux as their primary development machine. I bet next year the survey will focus in on selecting primary OS as a choice.
- scarface74 8y agoPeople complaining about MacOS and leaving is anecdotal. Mac revenues were the highest ever last quarter.
- Retra 8y agoAre Mac revenues so largely dependent on developer habits, or are they maybe more a function of consumer habits?
- sqd 8y agoI don't have any complaints against OSX in terms of dev environment, but the window manager is just horrible.
- oblio 8y ago> been the OS of choice for arguably the majority of developers that aren't developing specifically for windows (.NET etc) Not necessarily. In absolutely every enterprise Java development environment I've seen in Europe, they're using Windows as the developer OS. Easier to manage using AD.
- jsmeaton 8y agoSure, you've added another segment that is not linux. The point I was trying to make is that I don't think many people would expect linux (of any flavour) to be the dominant development OS.