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You were just shown statistics that disprove your idea that almost nobody codes using Windows... over half of the developers who answered StackOverflow's survey
by throw5653 4y ago
You were just shown statistics that disprove your idea that almost nobody codes using Windows... over half of the developers who answered StackOverflow's survey are using Windows. Pointing at more anecdotes around you does not change this fact.
- chrisseaton 4y agoMaybe Stack Overflow skews to Windows developers? I don't know how good their data is. It's hard not to look around with your own eyes and notice that you never see anyone using Windows - like I say, even the Microsoft ones! Do you meet a lot of developers using Windows? What kind of circles is that in?
- kroltan 4y agoIn game development, it's all almost exclusively Windows, and Mac if developing mobile games.
- kcbanner 4y agoI think you may have quite a large blind spot here. The games industry is primarily Windows based.
- towawy 4y ago"The survey must be bad because it doesn't fit my optics" is an awful take.
- chrisseaton 4y agoMost surveys are skewed to a particular set of users who choose to fill it in! SO is one of the few examples of a major developer site that runs on Windows, for example.
- ripley12 4y agoGames, security, finance, and a mindboggling number of companies writing line-of-business software. "Dark matter developers" is a term I've heard used for some of the latter: https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-unseen-99 https://www.hanselman.com/blog/dark-matter-developers-the-un... I would generally say that native Windows development is in decline, but it's a long slow decline and it's starting from an incredibly high base. "a rounding-error of zero" is so wildly incorrect that it is very clear you are in a bubble of sorts.