21,7% of programmers use a Linux operating system, which makes us the third in this field
21,7% of all programmers in the world they use linux to develop their applicationsAt least these are the data collected in the latest surveys conducted with developers.
With 21,7% we are third in the list of most used systems, only below Windows 7 with 22,5% of the share and Mac OS X which surprisingly occupies the first position with 26,2% of the total developer share.
Within this 21,7% user share, we have to 12,3% use the Ubuntu operating system, which is the king of Linux systems in this field. The rest of the percentage is widely distributed among all distributions, with Debian in second place with only 1,9% share and the rest of distributions such as Linux Mint or Fedora with figures around 1%.
As for Microsoft's rivals, we have a significant number of programmers who use Windows 10, approximately 20,8% of users, possibly motivated by the free update (and being a good programmer does not mean being good at systems and vice versa). In the end, 52,2% of programmers are using a Windows system, the lowest figures being Windows XP with 0,4% and the disastrous Windows Vista with 0,1%.
If we look at last year's results, the use of linux by programmers is up 1,2%. As for the others, Windows 7 is the one that has lost the most user share(It was almost 50% in 2013), something motivated perhaps by the free upgrade to Windows 10 that Microsoft offered to users, even if Windows 7 is pirated.
To name more data from the survey, the most used programming language is JavaScript, with 55,4%, followed by SQL with 49,1% and Java with 36%. Regarding the way they program, 67,8% are employed, 12,6% are students, 7,1% work as freelancer and 4,3% are self-employed.