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?

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 on develop Linux and work with a 64 bit.

Most my work is on 32 bit linux. I use 32 bit just because that's what worked when I started most these projects and don't have any need to change. Linux is simply what's on the web servers I spend much of my dev time on.

I do Windows stuff too though, but very little 64 bit there either.

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?

My main development platform is x86_64 Linux, because it was free and well-supported so I downloaded it for my laptop which is my main development machine. My laptop has an AMD64 processor, so why not use the proper OS architecture for it?

I use Windows 7 on my Desktop, which I do a fair amount of development on, and have a few OSes set up in VirtualBox (a VM) to ensure my software works on most major operating system setups if necessary.

Regards,
Kelet

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

Arch Linux 64-bit on a Lenovo laptop from work. It's what I use to develop everything and I wouldn't have it any other way.

> And why?

Why Linux or why 64-bit?

Atila

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 x64

why? Linux fits me well, for all the usual reasons.

The philosophy of a small set of specialized tools that do their jobs very well and interface sensibly however I want them to appeals to me, much more so than having a leviathan that pretends to know what I want. Having said that, I don't want to be stuck without the occasional convenience. Hence: linux.

On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:18:24 +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?
> 
> And why?

64bit linux.  Cause it's open-source Unix(y), that is, the proper design for an operating system.

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

Why? Because it is default. There should be a reason to go for anything else, not other way around :)

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, 64bit.

I have developed an HTTP 1.1 web server, and it is being used in production server which runs Linux 64 bit.

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?

I primarily use Ubuntu (Linux) 12.04 64bit. I'll update to 14.04 when that comes out as i only install the LTS (long term support) versions.

> And why?

Because it the easiest platform to install and get my hands on development tools. sudo apt-get install for the win!

I use MacOS 10.8.5 64bit at work and have done lots of D development there too. The big downside is lack of a package manager for getting my hands on GCC/GDB/libs etc.. Homebrew[1] helps but is no match for apt.

[1]: http://brew.sh/