> Surprisingly almost two-thirds of respondents selected Linux as their development environment OS. Please note, for this question we allowed multiple answers. We’re not drawing primary OS popularity conclusions here.
What makes that surprising? A past result? A preconceived idea?
The surveys 9th takeaway is the same:
> Surprisingly, almost two-thirds of Python developers choose Linux as their development environment OS.
... Why is it surprising? Did you expect an equal split? Did you expect Windows to dominate?
There's no answer here. I have no idea why the result is surprising: it fits what I would expect.
It is surprising to me, for probably similar reasons that the authors expected. OSX has, for a long time, been the OS of choice for arguably the majority of developers that aren't developing specifically for windows (.NET etc). OSX has been obviously popular, though I recognise that in the last year there has been a trend of people complaining about OSX and threatening to leave.
I took the survey and I marked both OSX and Linux, because I deploy (local/docker remote/vm) to linux and spend quite some time in linux shells. I think it likely that a lot of windows users would do the same.
To be crystal clear, I wouldn't think that the majority of python developers are using linux as their primary development machine. I bet next year the survey will focus in on selecting primary OS as a choice.
> been the OS of choice for arguably the majority of developers that aren't developing specifically for windows (.NET etc)
Not necessarily. In absolutely every enterprise Java development environment I've seen in Europe, they're using Windows as the developer OS. Easier to manage using AD.
Sure, you've added another segment that is not linux. The point I was trying to make is that I don't think many people would expect linux (of any flavour) to be the dominant development OS.
What makes that surprising? A past result? A preconceived idea?
The surveys 9th takeaway is the same:
> Surprisingly, almost two-thirds of Python developers choose Linux as their development environment OS.
... Why is it surprising? Did you expect an equal split? Did you expect Windows to dominate?
There's no answer here. I have no idea why the result is surprising: it fits what I would expect.