Most popular operating systems among developers

A lot of it, I suspects, has to do with how difficult Apple makes it to develop an itunes app on other platforms.
 
That graph is not truly representive, why split Windows into different versions if you not prepared to do the same for all Linux and Mac OS major versions? I can understand with Windows Vista and XP, but splitting 7, 8.1 and 10 is ridiculous.
 
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The article clearly states that the "Mac edged ahead of the various flavours of Linux as the number 2 operating system among developers."

Personally, I will never use a Windows computer for personal use. Mac's are just too lovely!
 
Aside the Mac hardware being nice, it's easier to run a Linux or Windows VM under Mac than it is to run a Mac VM under Linux or Windows.
 
Sapphiron said:
A lot of it, I suspects, has to do with how difficult Apple makes it to develop an itunes app on other platforms.
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This. As much as I love working on my Mac, the reason we looked at it in the first place is because if you want to compile stuff for Apple platforms and publish it to their marketplaces, you need a Mac.
 
I would love to move to Linux, but I'm a .NET developer so I need Windows 10, Visual Studio Premium and IIS to do my development. Mono with Apache simply doesn't cut it and the full version of Visual Studio Premium won't run on Linux.
 
deweyzeph said:
I would love to move to Linux, but I'm a .NET developer so I need Windows 10, Visual Studio Premium and IIS to do my development. Mono with Apache simply doesn't cut it and the full version of Visual Studio Premium won't run on Linux.
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Look into .Net Core, its .Net development from MS on Linux.
 
Stack Overflow said that in 2015, Mac edged ahead of the various flavours of Linux as the number 2 operating system among developers.
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number 2...that's too perfect.

:p
 
BBotha said:
Look into .Net Core, its .Net development from MS on Linux.
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I've been doing .net development for linux boxes with Mono for years. But .NET Core does not solve the Visual Studio problem.
 
DA-LION-619 said:
Not ready for prime time
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I would say still look at it. When its ready for Prime Time (even if RC2/RTM comes out 2nd half of this year, you'll be ready).

RC1 is stable enough for dev right now. We running our ASP.NET Core WebApi on AWS EC2 Ununtu right now.

Whether its going to be another long term fail is another debate all together, but if you listen the podcasts, they are putting alot of effort tomake it perfect and not release a buggy framework.

Just put a watch on the github projects and your inbox will be spammed!
 
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I've been doing .net development for linux boxes with Mono for years. But .NET Core does not solve the Visual Studio problem.
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Yeah Visual Studio Code is not bad on Mac, but nowhere near the quality and productivity of Visual Studio.

Hopefully with the Acquisition of Xamarin, Microsoft will use Xamarin Studio as its IDE on non Windows platforms. Even before Xamarin was acquired by Microsoft, the next preview of Xamarin Studio was reported to support ASP.NET Core development.

Maybe Microsoft will fastrack that now.
 
diegoa said:
That graph is not truly representive, why split Windows into different versions if you not prepared to do the same for all Linux and Mac OS major versions? I can understand with Windows Vista and XP, but splitting 7, 8.1 and 10 is ridiculous.
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There is one version of Linux, and various different Linux distributions. The way that they have presented the data in the article is correct.
 
I agree, incredibly misleading to not group Windows versions together.
 
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