Macs #1 on Stack Overflow Survey

[AdonisSMU]

http://stackoverflow.com/research/developer-survey-2016

Last year, Mac edged ahead of the Linuxes as the number 2 operating system among developers. This year it became clear that trend is real. If OS adoption rates hold steady, by next year's survey fewer than 50% of developers may be using Windows.

Speaking of the Linuxes, Ubuntu is tops among them with 12.3% of the entire OS market for developers. Fedora, Mint, and Debian accounted for 1.4%, 1.7%, and 1.9% of all responses, respectively.

 

[febLey]

Development was one of the main points why I switched to macOS. It fits my developing needs far better than Windows, I had too much hassle with it.

 

[Fancuku]

I am more surprised that Windows has 50% marketshare in the developers' world. You almost never hear of developers admitting that they use Windows. They all seem to be Mac or Linux.

 

[AdonisSMU]

I am more surprised that Windows has 50% marketshare in the developers' world. You almost never hear of developers admitting that they use Windows. They all seem to be Mac or Linux.

Notice a HUGE share are still using Windows 7.