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34 million developers? That number doesn't even pass a basic sniff test. Are there 34 million people that have Xcode installed? That I can believe.
by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
34 million developers? That number doesn't even pass a basic sniff test. Are there 34 million people that have Xcode installed? That I can believe.
- _puk 1y agoIf my experience is anything to go by - a good proportion of this will be people accidentally double clicking a .md (or other random text suffix), and cursing whilst they wait for XCode to slowly load enough that they can quit it and open the file in a proper lightweight editor..
- tomashubelbauer 1y agoI feel like the #1 reason to install Xcode is to get Git working on macOS. Yours is probably #2. I wouldn't bet money on iOS/macOS development sitting at #3.
- Lammy 1y agoCommand Line Tools for Xcode is a separate smaller package than the full graphical Xcode tho: `xcode-select --install`
- slipperydippery 1y agoYep, I open Xcode several times per year, but haven't done it on purpose since... uh, 2014 or so?
- oarsinsync 1y ago> At Apple's World Wide Developer Conference on Monday, Tim Cook mentioned that there are now 34 million registered developers with the company's platform. I think that means either: * they have revenues of $3.4b/year just from the $100 annual fees, or * some decent percentage of people have signed up for a free developer account and then never done anything with it (like me)