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Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo... by eropple on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @12:09PM (#12969033)
Most developers use Windows, where VS Professional (under the badge of VS Community) is free. The set of developers who use Linux and OS X (and I mean, I am one) is not representative of developers of a whole.
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Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo... by mmgutz on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:10AM (#12977539)
You mean most .NET developers use Windows?
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Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo... by eropple on Thursday November 17, 2016 @02:21PM (#12980543)
I mean most developers, period, use Windows, on a worldwide basis. Most web developers use Windows. Most C/C++ developers use Windows. Most Android developers use Windows. Almost all .NET developers use Windows--but most developers, period, use Windows.

Windows is the de facto standard in most places that aren't chasing the leading edge.

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Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo... by kuschku on Thursday November 17, 2016 @09:58PM (#12983951)
> I mean most developers, period, use Windows, on a worldwide basis.

I’m not sure anyone would agree with that.

Unless you also count designers, and kids who just learnt how to click together a website in Frontpage 2000 as developers.

Especially if you count compsci graduates, it becomes very obvious just how much *nix dominates.

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Re:Google joins .NET Foundation as Samsung brings .NET suppo... by eropple on Friday November 18, 2016 @10:18PM (#12991886)
Sure! Unless you have ever, even once, stopped to glance at the overwhelming majority of line-of-business programmers that outnumber your notion of "developers" five to one or more.

But good job with the warrantless and wrong contempt.

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