Ben: Are you sure most developers are working on Windows? #6
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Hi!
Question for Ben: regarding your article "Version control and the 80%" (
http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=79 ), you said:
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The 80% folks make up the bulk of the software development industry... They
use whatever tools Microsoft hands down to them — usally VS.NET if they’re
doing C++, or maybe a GUI IDE like Eclipse or IntelliJ for Java
development. They’ve never used Linux, and aren’t very interested in it
anyway...
Most of the software industry is made up of 80% programmers. Yes, most of
the world is small Windows development shops, or small firms hiring
internal programmers.
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So my question is: are you sure most developers are working on Windows? Not
according to the article which I referenced in http://xrl.us/ben9h :
"Linux is becoming the development platform of choice; for example, it is
expected that more developers will be developing on Linux than Windows by
2004;"
Do you agree with this, and if so - how does it reflect on your post?
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
Original issue reported on code.google.com by shlomif@gmail.com on 22 Jan 2008 at 9:09