{"id":203848,"date":"2017-03-23T13:26:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=203848"},"modified":"2017-03-23T13:28:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:28:11","slug":"the-most-popular-operating-system-used-by-software-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/203848-the-most-popular-operating-system-used-by-software-developers.html","title":{"rendered":"The most popular operating system used by software developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stack Overflow has published the results of its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/insights\/survey\/2017\/#methodology\" target=\"_blank\">2017 developer survey<\/a><\/strong>, which reveal that Windows remains the most-used desktop operating system among software developers.<\/p>\n<p>Of the 64,227 developers from 213 countries and territories who responded to the survey, 29,114 answered the platform\u00a0question.<\/p>\n<p>The change in the way the question was framed caused Linux desktop to shoot up to second place, after MacOS inched past it in 2015 and <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/159083-most-popular-operating-systems-among-developers.html\"><strong>held onto its place in 2016<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Stack Overflow predicted that if OS adoption rates hold steady, fewer than 50% of developers would use Windows.<\/p>\n<p>In this year\u2019s results, 41% of respondents said they use Windows.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Platforms\u00a0used by developers<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stackoverflow-2017-platforms.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-203850\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stackoverflow-2017-platforms-516x430.jpg\" alt=\"Stackoverflow 2017 platforms\" width=\"516\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stackoverflow-2017-platforms-516x430.jpg 516w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stackoverflow-2017-platforms-480x400.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Stackoverflow-2017-platforms.jpg 671w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/198582-windows-7-is-still-the-operating-system-of-choice.html\">Windows 7 is still the operating system of choice<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stack Overflow has revealed the most popular operating systems among software developers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[35,1799,36626,14053,807],"class_list":["post-203848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-headline","tag-linux","tag-macos","tag-operating-system","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203986,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203848\/revisions\/203986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}