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> they are areas were Windows is still popular those areas where Windows is still popular account for a tiny percentage of the devs who responded to that surve

> they are areas were Windows is still popular those areas where Windows is still popular account for a tiny percentage of the devs who responded to that survey. The majority of responders define themselves as backend, frontend or fullstack developers - which are web development roles https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#developer-roles-dev-type https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#developer-roles-dev-ty... TL;DR nowadays, most developers are web developers. PS the reason why the total of all responses is more than 100%, is that this was a multiple selections response.

mastazi 4y ago
> WSL is there for a reason though to be clear, I'm not disputing that in some areas of web dev, Windows is less supported than Linux, I'm just saying that a significant percentage of web devs use Windows, whether or not an open source project decides to keep this into account is obviously not up to me to decide, and I can understand why some projects, especially smaller one, might decide to focus on Unix/Linux in the initial periods.
hajile 4y ago
That "over 100%" is more significant than you think. If you use windows primarily, there's a very big chance it's the ONLY operating system you use. If you use MacOS or Linux, there are most likely windows machines sitting around too. In my case, I have a windows laptop from work in addition to a macbook. I'd check both boxes, but I've only opened that windows machine a handful of times for esoteric windows issues. If this idea held true just 50% of the time, then real use of windows would actually be somewhere around 25% and that's assuming a 100% overlap between the Linux and MacOS people (a bad assumption). Another telling point is the tiny sliver of WSL responses. MS Server is so incredibly unpopular that even the majority of Azure instances have run on Linux for years now. Writing on Windows without WSL then deploying to Linux is a recipe for disaster. A question where the reader has to infer a lot is a bad question. They should have asked about how much a particular OS is used.

mastazi 4y ago

> WSL is there for a reason though to be clear, I'm not disputing that in some areas of web dev, Windows is less supported than Linux, I'm just saying that a significant percentage of web devs use Windows, whether or not an open source project decides to keep this into account is obviously not up to me to decide, and I can understand why some projects, especially smaller one, might decide to focus on Unix/Linux in the initial periods.

hajile 4y ago

That "over 100%" is more significant than you think. If you use windows primarily, there's a very big chance it's the ONLY operating system you use. If you use MacOS or Linux, there are most likely windows machines sitting around too. In my case, I have a windows laptop from work in addition to a macbook. I'd check both boxes, but I've only opened that windows machine a handful of times for esoteric windows issues. If this idea held true just 50% of the time, then real use of windows would actually be somewhere around 25% and that's assuming a 100% overlap between the Linux and MacOS people (a bad assumption). Another telling point is the tiny sliver of WSL responses. MS Server is so incredibly unpopular that even the majority of Azure instances have run on Linux for years now. Writing on Windows without WSL then deploying to Linux is a recipe for disaster. A question where the reader has to infer a lot is a bad question. They should have asked about how much a particular OS is used.