From: Christian Neukirchen Date: 2005-09-06T23:27:39+09:00 Subject: Re: windows shell Lothar Scholz writes: > Hello Charles, > > CP> As far as programming goes, most people don't spend that much time in > CP> Windows. I'm sorry if that upsets you. > CP> Charles > > I don't agree with many arguments from Austin and also not with his > writing style but in this point he is correct. From all the statistics > i see (including my own weblogs) i would doubt if more then 15% of all > ruby users use linux for development, 5% maybe MacOSX but the majority > of 80% is still using windows. I barely can believe that. Note that your numbers are biased since you provide a IDE that is mainly used on Windows. (I see there is a Linux version again.) The number of Unix users is much larger, I think and especially among the Railers OS X is used a lot. > And by the way, i don't think that this newsgroup is very > representative for the ruby community. I disagree, ruby-talk/the newsgroup is a big player for "the" Ruby *community* (but of course not for the Ruby developers that don't participate)---among the IRC channels and the Ruby blogosphere. It would be very interesting to know which OS are used by the developers, though (not at last to make it work better on these platforms). Maybe the people of ruby-lang.org can publish their numbers? Also, independent sites like RedHanded may provide less biased statistics. > Lothar Scholz -- Christian Neukirchen http://chneukirchen.org