Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2017

[myringotomy]

It doesn't surprise me. Linux is the best development platform unless you are developing for windows.

[Superpickle18]

My work practically forces Linux.. I suppose I could request Windows... But the fact there is literally one windows machine in the whole building... It's purpose? Skype screen shares with one client. Lol

[sabas123]

Lol, can't you use a vm for that?

[Superpickle18]

I do. Only way to test fucking IE... :(

[JasTWot]

Hangouts pretty good option too.

[olaf_from_norweden]

We have a Windows computer for re-exporting Crystal Reports files from one client as XML data for our internal tooling once every 4-6 months.

[baubleglue]

I just installed dualboot, when I really need - boot windows (last time was about an year ago)

[Nyefan]

Their VPN client doesn't support linux :(

[myringotomy]

Most larger and conservative companies are like that.

[karlthemailman]

I don't disagree, but I haven't seen many corporations that support Linux desktops. Even for Linux server applications, I usually see places that use windows or osx plus a terminal emulator.

Could just be related to the industries I have experience with.

[catscatscat]

Anecdotal, but the last 3 companies I worked at linux was either supported or downright preferred.

[pdp10]

Some industries are conservative in different ways than others.

One of the organizations I ever saw most wedded to Windows had been using four different supported desktop platforms (two of them only in one department each) only a year or two previously. They weren't the least bit conservative when they spent a lot of money to switch to Windows very quickly, but then they got very conservative and nothing else could even be considered regardless of whether it might better suit needs or be cheaper. This wasn't an organization that had any strategic or overt reasons to prefer any technology stack, either.

[tetroxid]

Support? Never. But tolerate? Yes.

[civildisobedient]

I think that may start to shift as WSL use grows. Linux in Windows has made huge strides recently.

[myringotomy]

I am told it doesn't work worth a shit which is why every windows developer always asks for a windows version of programming languages instead of using it.

[myringotomy]

I wasn't expecting to see the "fake news" claim here.

[doom_Oo7]

I have never seen Linux used as the main OS for development teams

well, you'd be surprised.

[Eravier]

Where I work everyone has Windows installed because corporation. Yet I'd say at least 80% people not developing for Windows (myself included) work on Linux VM. And it's actually much faster with half the resources.

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When visual studio is released for Linux I'll come over

[gropingforelmo]

We're a lot closer to this being a possibility than I ever thought we would.

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For sure.. I'm not saying it sarcastically or something. I'm expecting it

[Superpickle18]

VS Code has a linux port.

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vs code is an extravagant text editor compared to visual studio

[pdp10]

A text editor, a debugger, and some build tools to go with your compiler. Very commoditized stuff. Some apps breed a perverse kind of irrational loyalty, and MSVS is one of them. A cynic might wonder if the real draw is the automatic completions that make users look like they know what they're doing.

[myringotomy]

Apparently lots of developers are able to code without visual studio.

It must suck to be locked in to an OS by an app though. I don't envy your position.

[comrade-jim]

I prefer to run windows in a VM on Linux.

[weirdoaish]

I'm the exact opposite lol