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More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the keeping-up-with-the-trends dept.

An anonymous reader writes from an article on 9to5Mac: Stack Overflow reports that more developers now use OS X than Linux as their primary OS, and that if the trend continues, fewer than half of all developers will be using Windows next year. The site says it carried out "the most comprehensive developer survey ever conducted," with more than 56,000 coders across 173 countries taking part.
The survey also mentioned more were still developing for Android than iOS -- 61.9% versus 47.5%. However, almost a third of developers are using Swift, which was also the second most loved language after Rust.

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  1. duh by bananaquackmoo · · Score: 4, Informative

    Hint: OSX runs is BSD based and runs a terminal.

    1. Re:duh by Moridineas · · Score: 4, Informative

      Hilarious post.

      SystemStarter came from Next (afaik--or at least the crazy earliest versions of OS X) and has been deprecated for something like 12 years (it was started by init, btw). The current initial/cron/systemd type daemon is launchd. Did I mention that launchd is open source and has been ported to FreeBSD? I dont know a ton about systemd, but it seems similar—if more expansive—than launchd.

      If you don't like the BSD-style utilities, you can always install gnu versions. See brew, macports, etc.

      Darwin is open source.

  2. because you can still run linux by johnrpenner · · Score: 4, Informative

    mac hardware lets you run all three major OS's (osx + windows + linux) on a single piece of hardware.

    also — you get all the commandline UNIX-y goodness + the ability to run Microsoft Word + the ability to run Adobe Photoshop right beside your terminal window.

    and it never stops running for some arcane reason after a pkg update.