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i saw a stackoverflow survey that said something like 75% of developers use windows as their main dev environment
by shortrounddev 4y ago
i saw a stackoverflow survey that said something like 75% of developers use windows as their main dev environment
- doodlesdev 4y agoI imagine it was this one [0]. I was confused by it at first because it amounts to more than 100%, then I understood it's a multiple choice question, so the correct affirmation would be around 50% of spftware developers use Windows in a professional capacity, but that doesn't exclude them also using Linux, macOS or BSD. [0]: https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2022/#section-most-popular-t...
- dathinab 4y agoany developer developing for windows is on windows most game developers are on windows whole tech sectors have been captured successful by Microsoft in the past and most developers there have to use Windows weather they like it or not, some of them are _really_ big (but also not super vocal or visible on GitHub as they tend to be quite proprietary in all of their actions). etc. etc. Idk. how realistic 75% is (e.g. what it counts as developer who/how people where asked etc.) but it's probably a high rate anyway. EDIT: Also also probably using one doesn't exclude the other and doesn't necessary exclude them running it in a VM ;=)
- shortrounddev 4y agoAs a personal aside, I vastly prefer deving on Windows to macOS. Linux I can take or leave, but I just dont see the point really.