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More Devs Now Use OS X Than Linux, Says Survey (9to5mac.com)
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.
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.
And on a mac laptop, sleep and hibernate and resume always work.
Except that the summary also says that more people develop for Android than for iOS.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
The GP didn't say they weren't developers, just that they didn't do a good job representing developers as a whole. The claims is that more developers develop on something, the GP points out that it is really more of a particular subset. His opinion is also that the subset in question isn't likely very good.
It's not a "No true Scotsman," fallacy to say that a subgroup isn't representative of the whole group. For example if you said "All Scottish people are drunks, I mean just look at all of them in this bar," it would not be a fallacy for someone to say "You are in a bar, the people here do not represent all the people in Scotland, this is a small subgroup."
Further, something like a developer isn't just an arbitrary label. You aren't a developer just because you say you are any more than you are astronaut or a plumber or the like. Someone that fucks around with a tiny bit of JS coding a bit in their free time isn't a developer, just like someone who once changed the drain trap on their sink is a plumber. When you talk about professions, there is the idea that you do it, well, professionally.
I'm a developer. I do not want to be the sysadmin for my own machine. It wastes too much of my time. Now granted I do have to do it from time to time on my Mac at work, but it's far simpler than trying to deal with fixing problems in Linux. I used to be a Unix sysadmin, later I used Linux a lot, but these days Linux is just too complicated. Even worse if you have xubuntu or kubuntu so that all of the web searches only give you solutions that work for ubuntu.
And you can get Mac Ports to put other tools on the Mac easily.
If you're forced to have an enterprise machine by the corporate ideology, would you want Windows with a slow and clumsy Cygwin or a native Unix that can run native tools? No, the enterprise people probably won't let you have Linux unless it's a second machine.
Except that the summary also says that more people develop for Android than for iOS.
Developing for Android does not mean that you don't use OS X. In fact, if you want to target both iOS and Android then the best solution is a Mac. Yes, you can't write for iOS on other platforms, but that will be a small minority.
If you develop for iOS then you will almost certainly (or must?) be using OSX to do so...
If you develop for Android you have a choice of platforms.
If you develop for both you might as well run OSX because the android tools run just as well on there, plus if you're employed as a developer you can justify an expensive mac over whatever bottom of the barrel junk you'd have got otherwise.
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