Clarification: the operating system where e.g. your IDE runs on. Not the deployment target.
Results from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055031
Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
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#2What about cloud based IDEs?
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#3Depends: for hobby purposes, or what my daytime job forces on me?
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#4Finally bailed Windows this year after a lifetime of MSVC, couldn't be happier with the decision. I'm actually kind of grateful for Windows 11 being so impossibly shit and forcing so many people to finally make the switch! Now I use Arch, btw.
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#5nixos or arch for me.
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#6What about cloud based IDEs?
Click Linux
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#7To save a click, in 2022, the distribution was:
Linux - 46.25%, MacOS - 32.21%, Windows - 21.54%
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#8Depends: for hobby purposes, or what my daytime job forces on me?
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#10Not sure this covers popular mixes, eg WSL or considers AI clients.
My IDE is Windows (VSCode or Cursor); but I'm also using ChatGPT in the browser and various Linux command line tools (connecting through Windows Terminal to WSL Redhat).
There should probably be a fully hybrid option in the poll.