[WayneBro]

Meh. That stack overflow survey is definitely flawed. My conclusion is based on the fact that most businesses run Windows and as a consultant, I visit many many many enterprise shops. None of them are running Macs or Linux.

The people here on HN live in a bubble.

[pmontra]

I'm probably in another country on another continent (Italy) but web development, both back end and front end, is a Mac business here. There are some Linux laptops (me too), many Linux VMs on Macs, very few Windows. But we're developing for Linux servers so why should we be using Windows? Every time I get to work junior devs out of university with Windows laptops I advise them to install a Linux VM or be prepared to suffer and google alone how to fix things there.

People are using Macs because it gives them a preconfigured and stable Linux like environment, almost 100% compatible with the server. Windows tend to have different toolings and different quirks. It doubles the effort. In my experience it's OK if you're using Java, which mostly hides the OS and it's obviously a must if you go with .NET. Basically only large companies use those two technologies, and not all of them. Everybody else is on scripting languages, JS, PHP, Python, Ruby. Btw, Java is almost always deployed to Linux too.

So, it could be a bubble but it's a large one.