Survey: Linux Draws Windows Developers

Twintop writes "According to this story on eWEEK, more Linux developers are coming from Windows backgrounds than from UNIX backgrounds according to a recent study by Evans Data. The original story and the actual survey from Evans Data is available as well."

Comments

Development Tools Need Work? I don't think so . .

[jmt9581]

I don't know why the E-week story says that "According to the survey, 25 percent of the respondents labeled the current crop of compilers as either 'adequate' or 'needs work'" and that "However, according to the survey, the developers also said that Linux development tools need work."

If you look at the actual data, it looks more like no more than 3.8% said that the compilers "need work." 90% rated the compilers as "adequate" or better, and 70% rated the compilers as "very good" or better.

To me, it looks like they just drew a conclusion that they wanted to draw instead of actually looking at the data.

Re:I didn't like Linux dev stuff when I tried it.

[mvdw]

What would be truly cool would be an integrated dev. toolset (like devstudio) that allowed me to develop software for both Linux and Windows

Try Borland's C++ Builder/Delphi (Windows) and Kylix (linux) products.

Text editor

[hayriye]

If you switch from Windows to Linux, and found Unix style text editors hard to use, I recommend nedit. It has copy-paste capabilities similiar to Windows based text editors.

I don't have any relation with nediters. I'm just a happy user.