Linux vs Windows: What do programmers use.

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>>85
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Most professional programmers use Windows. Only hopelessly naïve script kiddie types and bearded old men in sweat-soaked sandals bother using Linux.

C# is the best language, that defaults to Windows, but Mono allows for compiling .NET on Linux.  If you're doing any other old programming language, go with Linux, it's more awesome.

>>94
that's cool "bro", just remember to WYPMP.

You couldn't program for shit.  Bitch.

It depends on what libraries you are using, what platforms you are targeting, and what language you're using.

For learning programming it does not matter. Every OS will have a C compiler.

Of course if you are using DirectX, Win32, .NET, COM, etc., there is no question that you need to develop on Windows. There aren't any languages I can think of that are difficult or impossible to use on Windows. So if you want maximum choice without getting used to more than one interface, I'd say go with Windows.

Do you like IDEs? Then there is no substitute for Visual Studio. There is also nothing stopping you from going text editor (Vim and Emacs work on Windows) and CLI (PowerShell) route in Windows.

You should use Linux if you are specifically targeting Linux to the exclusion of other platforms. You _can_ use Linux if what you are doing is platform agnostic (like Java). Web dev is not platform agnostic because of IE.

Most professional programmers use Windows, for reasons I hope are evident.

>>95
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Stick to ISO Standard C and it won't matter what OS you're using or even if there is an OS. A Standard C program will run on everything whether it's a PIC microcontroller, a PDP-10, an AS/400, a Lisp machine, or a Cray. Remember, a byte has CHAR_BIT bits.

>>100
YOU AINT RED THE STANDARD SO YOU DONT KNO SHIT BOUT DA C ABSTRACT MACHINE.

>>97

Most professional programmers use Windows, for reasons I hope are evident.

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>>100
except when you need to do something platform specific, which is all the time

Use linux.

``Pro'' programmer use Mac.

I switch between all 3 OSes. I use OSX for iPhone development (locked in), Windows for Android because my physical devices are kind of a bitch with Linux, and Linux for misc. use like web personal use.

>>106
This is surprisingly true. Both weenie web developers and greybeard hackers seem to use OS X. I suppose it's because it's an easy, modern UNIX.

>>106-108
enjoy your spyware, faggots.

>>109
Enjoy your free as in no drivers.

I write nothing of importance, so any system with perl can run my shitty monkey code and no one cares.

>>110
back to the 90s, ``please''

>>108
You don't seem to know what a greybeard hacker is.

>>109
Back to /g/, please.

>>113
fuck off, freedom-hater. enjoy your governmental and corporative spyware.

>>114
fuck off, shotgun-retard. enjoy your being an anus.

>>114
``enjoy'' your imageboards, retarded fagshit

>>1
Real Programmers don't program at all. They visual everything.

>>115-116
fuck off, cretins

They use what ever their employer needs them to use.

In 95% of all cases that would be Windows and I'm one of those programmers that uses visual studio and all that. Sure, sometimes I need to use linux for specialized software, but never any other unixes.

That said, I've been using linux at home for well over 10 years (well, I don't keep count) and love to program with it, not sure why, because I hate everything about unix and linux. Maybe it's because the tools involved got hardwired into my mind when I was young and impressionable.

>>119
enjoy your governmental and corporative spyware, faggot.