On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 16:18:24 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> Popped into my head today.
>
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
>
> And why?

Linux 64 bit. I also have win8 on my laptop and Win7 on an older PC, and sometimes I do use them. If it was for me, 32 bit support and WinXP support could be dropped at any time :P
Why 64 bit: 32 is sort of old, and 2 GB on scientific computing doesn't cut it
Why linux: because it's made by developers for developers. You can feel the difference when it comes to tools and managing the software.

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 16:18:24 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> Popped into my head today.
>
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
>
> And why?

I develop 64 bit apps on Linux exclusively. High volume distributed server code for the most part.  Which I guess these days you'd call cloud services.

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 16:18:24 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:

> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?

Linux 64 bit.

> And why?

Why not? :)

On 2/4/2014 11:18 AM, Steve Teale wrote:
> Popped into my head today.
>
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and
> what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
>
> And why?

My *main* development is done on a Win7 64-bit machine (even though I absolutely *hate* all versions of windows post-XP). This is because Linux still doesn't quite meet all of my needs, even though I've been itching to switch.

I usually target 32-bit though, partly because of inertia and partly because I don't want to deal with getting DMD connected up and working with the MSVC linker. I can never remember how to and last time I tried I failed (I think my MS toolchain actually ate itself without anything even touching it).

I also do development on Linux though, partly because I try to be cross-platform, and also because my server is Linux (the only sensible choice for a remote server IMO). But my Linux dev is usually on a 32-bit OS because my CPU is a f*&^$#* Intel and doesn't include hardware virtualization (which Intel has deemed to be unworthy for anyone not willing to shell out $$$$$ for high-end hardware), so I can't run 64-bit VMs.

On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:18:24 -0800, Steve Teale <steve.teale@britseyeview.com> wrote:

> Popped into my head today.
>
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
>
> And why?

I use Windows 8.1 x64 and write apps exclusively for x64.

I use Windows primarily because it's what I know best and it has capabilities I haven't found on Linux yet.

-- 
Adam Wilson
GitHub/IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 16:18:24 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> Popped into my head today.
>
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
>
> And why?

At work I develop on Win7, because my company is a Microsoft groupie.

My personal machine runs Arch Linux, but I have very little time to hack on it(and when I do, it's usually Vim plugins)

Both are 64bit

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 16:18:24 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> Popped into my head today.
>
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
>
> And why?

64-bit Linux

I did work on Windows until I started using Git. I'm sure Git works passably on Windows, but I know that life is better for everyone in the world if you set up your repository on a *nix machine, because the default for your files will have \n line endings and your folder structure will have to support case-sensitive file names.

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 16:18:24 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> Popped into my head today.
>
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
>
> And why?

OS: linux x64, freebsd x64.
Why: Both are superior to most other OSs, available either free or $$$.

Cheers,
ed

On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 at 16:18:24 UTC, Steve Teale wrote:
> Popped into my head today.
>
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?
>
> And why?

There has been polls in the past, I believe Linux dominates (not sure if there were questions about 64bit).

Linux amd64 is my main desktop, so it is also my main platform for hobby projects.

At work we run we have Windows, I end up writing for 32 bit there because I haven't had good luck with hobby projects moving to 64bit windows.

Why is linux my main desktop? I'll provide one example. I have 3 desktops right now. Two have different programming project items, and then there is this one with Steam, hulu and other entertainment items. Linux Rox.

On Tue, 2014-02-04 at 16:18 +0000, Steve Teale wrote:
> Popped into my head today.
> 
> What proportion of the D community develops on Linux of some sort, and what proportion works with a 64 bit OS?

I am on Linux mainly. 64-bit only.

> And why?

Because I have 8 or 12GB of main memory.

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