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Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers (www.jetbrains.com)

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Source: JetBrains' "The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023" survey

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[–] fogetaboutit@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I agree with everything but the "This only works on x86". I'm not saying that everything runs smoothly on arm, but I think it really is the future. Either that, or risc-v. I doubt riscv will garner a mainstream adoption anytime soon though, but one could only dream.

[–] Still@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

well yeah arm is definitely the future, but edge cases and undefined behavior make parity between the instruction sets a major pain

[–] mrkite@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Gdb doesn't work at all on m1 macs