Linux Is The Most Popular & Loved Platform Among Devs: Stack Overflow Survey

[steven36]

We brought you the list of the most popular programming languages as per the Stack Overflow’s annual developer survey. Being the largest survey of its kind, it’s able to deliver some fascinating insights regarding the current software development landscape. We, unsurprisingly, discovered that JavaScript continues to be the most popular programming language with about 70% of respondents using it.

 

In the second article of that series, we are going to tell you about the preferred platforms for development. The development platform is critical as it can either make you fall in love with your work or just drive you nuts. That’s why Stack Overflow asked developers about the platforms they love working for and the ones they’ve actually worked for in the past year.

 

16 Most popular development platforms

As the article’s title has already revealed, Linux is the most popular platform among the survey respondents. Out of the 80,144 responses, 53.3% were in favor of Linux. This means that they’d done development work for Linux over the past year. This number has increased from last year’s 48.3%, which is a really encouraging sign for the open source community.

 

Linux was followed by its closed source nemesis Windows, which gained 50.5% votes. For the first time, Stack Overflow included container technologies in the survey, and Docker ended up at #3 with 31.5% votes.

 

Platforms	Votes
Linux	53.30%
Windows	50.70%
Docker	31.50%
Android	27.00%
AWS	26.60%
MacOS	22.20%
Slack	20.90%
Raspberry Pi	15.20%
WordPress	14.50%
iOS	13.00%
Google Cloud Platform	12.40%
Microsoft Azure	11.90%
Arduino	10.70%
Heroku	10.60%
Kubernetes	8.50%
IBM Cloud or Watson	1.90%

16 Most Loved Development Platforms

Without a surprise, Linux also turned out to be the most loved platform for development with 83.1% votes.  It means that developers surely loved working on Linux technologies. This is, again, an encouraging sign as this number has risen considerably as compared to last year’s 76.5%.

 

Platforms	Votes
Linux	83.10%
Docker	77.80%
Kubernetes	76.80%
Raspberry Pi	72.10%
AWS	71.60%
MacOS	70.50%
iOS	68.10%
Google Cloud Platform	66.80%
Microsoft Azure	65.40%
Slack	65.20%
Android	64.50%
Windows	64.20%
Arduino	61.30%
Heroku	52.70%
IBM Cloud or Watson	44.60%
WordPress	40.50%

 

 

Keep reading, keep coding!

 

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[mp68terr]

Linux Is The Most Popular & Loved Platform Among Devs: Stack Overflow Survey... Good!

But would be nicer to have replies with a single choice since the total is higher than 100%.

[steven36]

The thing with Linux  you can use Windows 10  to develop  on it witch made it The Most Popular  witch is good for Linux.  But  Windows have the most Developers on there platform  but most of them are Cross Platform DEVs.   Even though  Devs don't love  Windows  at all anymore, they have to make apps for it  too. How could they with them adding UWP to Windows ? Microsoft are pain to develop for .  But Linux has  as much  Devs  as MAC OS do

 

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Linux  is used as the primary operating system of 25% of developers, equaling MacOS.

Developers' Primary Operating Systems

Edit: PS

Most Loved, Dreaded, and Wanted Platforms

 

Linux is the Most Loved and  lest dreaded  of all platforms and  it score higher than any other desktop platform  as the most wanted platform for devs.

So It's the year of the Year of the Linux (Developer) desktop!!! 

[steven36]

4 hours ago, mp68terr said:

But would be nicer to have replies with a single choice since the total is higher than 100%.

Why should they be?  Devs   don't have  to pick a  single choice  of platforms  they develop on anymore  in real life so why should the have to here?   Most DEVs   are cross platform  DEVs  only thing that in the 100%category  is the platform they use to do it on . They can love or hate them the same even if  they  like or hate developing on both .

 

It's not the  1980s no more were you have very little to chose from it's all cross platform .