On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 13:27:10 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
On 29/05/2014 22:12, Dicebot wrote:
When similar question was asked during one of DConf talks vast
majority
raised their hands as Linux users ;)
It is not that surprising considering D currently is most
mature for all
kinds of services and server-side applications and this is
domain of
Linux supreme uncontested rule.
That might have some influence (the kind of apps that people
are making), but I disagree that it's the main factor.
I suspect the poorer Windows D toolchain support is a bigger
influence.
When volunteer effort is main development power actual use cases
drive toolchain enhancements, not other way around. It is not
like someone intentionally has made better tools for Linux just
to make Windows people sad.
Also native platform tools being open-source greatly helps in
building D ones on top. Remember that Walters article about
adding 64-bit support to DMD? He had to effectively reverse
engineer object file format to become compatible with Microsoft
tools.
