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by Zababa 1804 days ago
A few interesting points:

- Rust is now more popular than Scala as a primary language

- No mention of Clojure in "primary programming languages", no F# either.

- MacOS is the least used development environment between the big 3.

- France uses PHP the most. That's something I always believed, but it's nice to have data on it.

- 47% of respondants cook for themselves. I'd like to see a breakdown by country of this one.
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908B64B197 1804 days ago
> - MacOS is the least used development environment between the big 3.

What's important here is if it's used by the developers that matters. Mind share can mean more than market share.

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Zababa 1804 days ago
What do you mean by "the developers that matters"? What makes you believe than the mind share is different than the market share?
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908B64B197 1803 days ago
Developers that are setting trends.

Best example is Node.js. First versions were only for OSX and Linux. Same thing with DOOM being developed on NeXT hardware.

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Zababa 1803 days ago
That's a good point but with Docker and WSL I think these days it doesn't matter much.
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