On Thursday, October 12, 2017 08:05:04 Dmitry via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Wednesday, 11 October 2017 at 22:20:01 UTC, Rion wrote: > > Its probably more the fact that most of the developers use Unix > > based system for development, be it OSx or Linux. As a result > > Windows is the overlooked system what results in a lack of > > testing. > > I already posted some statistic: > > A survey of developers (about 15K people) from Russian IT site. > Windows ~67%, Linux ~20%, MacOS ~11% (biggest part of these > Linux/MacOS developers uses it for web developing) > > So, no. > > P.S. In other countries it may differ.
I think that he meant that most of the developers for dmd and the standard library run *nix systems, and AFAIK, that's true. There are some who run Windows (Walter does, and I think that Daniel does), but most of us primarily use a *nix OS of some variety. But overall, I don't think that the Windows situation with D is really all that much worse than what you get on Linux. It's just that the folks running Windows have a tendency to care a ton about stuff like IDEs that the folks running *nix systems historically don't care much about. And for whatever reason, even when we do have IDE support (e.g. VisualD), it never seems to be enough for some folks. D and its tools have improved quite a bit over the years, but there's always something that someone isn't happy with. - Jonathan M Davis
