Hacker News Poll: Which Operating System Do Developers Primarily Use for Coding?
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Summary
This article presents a poll from Hacker News asking developers which operating system they primarily use for development work. It clarifies that the question focuses on the OS where actual development activities occur (writing code, compiling, testing, IDE operation), not just the boot OS. The article explains that if someone uses a Linux VM or WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) for development tasks, they should consider themselves as developing on Linux, as that's the environment where the actual development work happens.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledThe question is not about booting, it's about which OS is running the environment where development happens (writing code, compiling code, testing code, etc).
If you're developing on a Linux VM that you connect to via a browser tab opened from your Windows laptop, you're developing on Linux for all intents and purposes.
That is, Windows was not doing enough for you so you switched to Linux for dev tasks.
By the same token, if your IDE is running in WSL, for all intents and purposes you're developing on Linux.
The question is not about booting, it's about which OS is running the environment where development happens (writing code, compiling code, testing code, etc).
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