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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.

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  1. Re:in an attempt to explain this to others.... by terjeber · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah. No. Sorry. You are wrong. The OS-X tools are in fact oh so much better than anyone else's. Now, if you use your computer exclusively for vi and make, you'd not really notice, but do you? You don't have a camera? You never need Photoshop or similar? Oh, and if you come out and claim that Gimp is an alternative to Photoshop I am going to track you down and pull out some of your teeth!