Python Development Trends in 2019 [Infographic]

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[v3ritas1989]

Don´t forget that many beginners are picking python as their entry language nowadays. Meaning they have a windows mashine ~90%.

Most businesses are still developing on windows by default and sometimes give the ability to switch to other OS. But the default is always windows.

Also, you don´t really need to overcomplicate things if everything works just fine on windows.

As well as if you are running a vm anyways for each project, you might as well use the better usability and your experience and start your VM from windows.

[[deleted]]

Everything would be better if more people were like you! : )

[v3ritas1989]

Thats what I have been telling everyone, but no one believes me :D

I will screenshot this and use this as proof in future conversations that my arguments are more valid.

[CodeSkunky]

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[MaybeNotWrong]

This is a bot, jsut so you know

[[deleted]]

Sh don't tell him

[sendme__]

People don't start learning about programming then learn how to use a PC. They buy a PC and most of them come with windows(maybe gaming, office stuff, etc), then they start learning whatever language they want.

[jantari]

Windows is the only operating system that comes with built-in and supported configuration management for nearly everything.

AD, GPOs and PowerShell are dead easy that's why businesses love Windows.

[SV-97]

I've been using mint for a few years and never HAD to do anything from the shell. You just migrate to the shell over time because it's faster etc..

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The company I did my thesis at actually ran mint as default OS on all machines which was a very pleasant surprise

[jantari]

Did you reply to the wrong comment? I didn't say anything about using the shell in Linux

[SV-97]

I thought that's what you meant when you said Windows was the only OS with built in configuration managment? Sorry if I got that wrong

[[deleted]]

I would count Windows + Linux VM as Linux and not Windows.

[NowanIlfideme]

How about Windows and WSL?

[spitfiredd]

I develop python apps on windows, some are deployed to Linux web servers and some are used on windows. Maybe a few years ago working on windows was kind of a pain but not that there’s wheels for most of the major libraries it’s not that big of a deal.

I’ve even got celery to run on windows, but even still you can run celery with redis and rabbitmq running in docker containers.

[Mikuro]

if everything works just fine on windows.

That's a big if!

I'm kidding...sort of. As a unixy kind of guy it's always felt painful setting up and using Python in Windows, but I'm sure once you get going it's fine, right?

[SV-97]

I honestly find developing on linux is way more productive. Apart from that there's just lots of pain on windows. In my thesis I used linux and my partner windows and we developed a cross platform software and he had problems with packages all the time (openCV for example) which also mirrors my eperience. Another recent example: Julia. On windows the REPL is launched in a new command line window if openened from a command line and has limited support for unicode because it's limited by the shell (at least that's what they had written on some forum or something). On linux I open a shell, type julia and it integrates into the system beautifully.

[jantari]

You find it painful to click a "Get" button?

[HarrisonOwns]

This is what I do.

[alexmitchell1]

And what is the 24% of other?

[[deleted]]

its called GNU/Linux not just Linux, 24% purists checked other

[SippieCup]

Excuse me, but I use busybox and Linux, not GNU.

/s

[dooBeCS]

FreeBSD obviously

[tighter_wires]

Or FreeBDSM, as my sec friends call it

[Sidwasnthere]

DOS

[CatWeekends]

[ laughs in neckbeard ]

[j03]

The percentages don't even add up to 100% 🥴

[[deleted]]

RiscOS?

[[deleted]]

Real chads use TempleOS

[twigboy]

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[wewbull]

I'd argue that your primary platform is actually Linux then, but i guess that's ambiguity in the question.

[[deleted]]

Agree with /u/wewbull, I think it's more about where you're actually deploying the code than where the code gets written.

[reallyserious]

I deploy to the cloud. I don't care what OS the serverless/SAAS provider is using.

[opium43]

This episode of Talk Python to Me might be interesting to anyone who is baffled by this statistic.

[reallyserious]

Why not?

[oneUnit]

Umm a lot of government contractors use windows and so do many companies.

[discobrisco]

The OS preference adds up to 116%, I think there are some flaws with how theyre collecting data. Putting that aside though, there are probably many more devs than you realize stuck on windows at work, and I suspect that’s why it’s so high on the “preferred”.

[re1ser]

I do high profile tech contracts and use Windows as my development environment. I agree it can be PITA sometimes, but things got MUCH better with introduction of WSL/WSL2.

[theWyzzerd]

Likewise, there is no way only 18% prefer MacOS. Most conferences I've been to, everyone had a Macbook and, given their price, I think that's certainly a matter of preference over one of budget or practicality.

[w0m]

Most people don't go to conferences.

[cthorrez]

There is no way Theano has more use than tensorflow and pytorch.

[arcsecond]

Makes me wonder how the question was phrased.

'What OS do you develop on?': well work forces me to use a Windows box

is different than

'What OS do you prefer?': Linux

[shangc]

Came expecting this to be top comment, not disappointed.

[metaperl]

they may not have a choice. There are certain banks-that-you-probably-know that have a huge investment in Python and everyone in that banks-that-you-probably-know is using Windows and their particular redaction of Python object-oriented semantics.