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My experience is that the only places where devs are using Windows is when it's mandatory That is a very narrow (dare I say Silicon Valley) view of the world.
by dagw 5y ago
My experience is that the only places where devs are using Windows is when it's mandatory
That is a very narrow (dare I say Silicon Valley) view of the world. I know tons of developers who love Visual Studio and cannot imagine programming without it. Plus there is a whole world of developers out there happily writing and shipping software that runs natively only on Windows.
- alfiedotwtf 5y agoI've found the opposite - with the companies I've worked for (all Australian) in the past 10 years, there's been a total of 5 developers I know of who ran Windows (and that's including a person who used to work at Microsoft).
- pjc50 5y agoIndeed. It depends what you're doing. Web development, yes, I can see why you'd want a UNIXy system for that. But a lot of the enterprise is Windows-first and if you want a desktop app, that's what you'd develop on. If you're doing embedded development you may have a choice of exactly one operating system with the manufacturer's toolchain. Do not underestimate the power of full Visual Studio. It's a bit bloated, and it's even slower with Resharper, but if you're working in C# it will do a lot for you.
- herbst 5y agoSwiss here, in my work experience only part of the management used windows. I also know some small shops enforcing it, but I don't know any dev who uses it because he wants to.
- diminish 5y agoAs an observation, especially in the 3rd world, and "3rd tier business" I think Windows is the dominant operating system.
- toastal 5y agoWhich some are still running XP. These are the places that could benefit the most from Linux or BSD to keep that hardware running as long as possible.