As a convinced idler I've long thought this is the case; this was a reflection on my own flaws prompted by my strong belief that significant presentations in other people of what in the old days would be called "weak character",eg obesity must be majorly down to underlying mental disorders or weaknesses because nobody would choose to be like that, right?
The neural or mental cause hypothesis for the latter has been pretty much proven by the success of drugs like Ozempic; it's really not a great stretch to see other deadly sins as similarly significantly brain-derived in addition to (and possibly sometimes dominating) environmental and cultural influences.
The important thing though - if you believe this - is not to claim victimhood as a sufferer but to grasp the opportunity that comes from identifying a challenge, and investigating the tools and techniques available to counter and - with perseverance - defeat it.
I can't say I'm obese, but I am proudly lazy, and I am firmly convinced our entire models of character, personality, mental illness, etc is rooted in culturally relative values. There's no particular reason we should look to productivity (or the west at all, really) for a source of values or reference of health.
Not sure this covers popular mixes, eg WSL or considers AI clients.
My IDE is Windows (VSCode or Cursor); but I'm also using ChatGPT in the browser and various Linux command line tools (connecting through Windows Terminal to WSL Redhat).
There should probably be a fully hybrid option in the poll.
The question is not about booting, it's about which OS is running the environment where development happens (writing code, compiling code, testing code, etc).
> Clarification: the operating system where e.g. your IDE runs on
If you're developing on a Linux VM that you connect to via a browser tab opened from your Windows laptop, you're developing on Linux for all intents and purposes.
That is, Windows was not doing enough for you so you switched to Linux for dev tasks.
By the same token, if your IDE is running in WSL, for all intents and purposes you're developing on Linux. A virtual machine, sure, but the virtualized OS is a Linux variant. Because installing the IDE on Windows itself was not doing enough for you.
I wouldn't consider Chrome the "operating system" that I am primarily developing on, even though it is really the VM under the hood. Windows is really the one facilitating running the Chrome application, or the Linux WSL application.
To be way too pedantic, if WSL2 (and therefore Hyper-V) is enabled then Windows actually boots into bare-metal Hyper-V first, which then launches the Windows kernel as a VM under itself, side-by-side with the WSL2 VMs if any are installed, so if the lowest level facilitator is what counts then you're really developing "on Hyper-V". I don't think that's a very useful distinction though.
I mean, that's a debatable definition, one could agree or not.
I program on Windows + WSL 2 e.g. and I have no idea how to develop on windows and barely used powershell in my life, but I know the ins and outs of Linux.
I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm right, I'm merely stating that we have different definitions and AFAICT there's no ISO standard saying what qualifies as developing on Linux and what not.
I guess it depends on what you do. I do python, rust, and web frontend in Windows. I have a personal bias against Docker, which'd otherwise be the primary WSL draw for me since if I want/need Linux, I can SSH into the majority of the machines in my house.
I'll throw out my unpopular opinion/experience here, too: I haven't liked any "desktop experience" I've seen or used for a Linux distro, and they all look and feel very similar to me: foreign, basic, and difficult for me to tweak and produce with. I greatly dislike the React stuff both on the web and in Windows, and use Classic Shell, which I'm satisfied with. Windows is easy to customize and almost everything can be tailored without even needing a reboot, many even with registry options already made and just waiting for a bit to be flipped.
It helps my puny, smooth brain, too, to just think of Windows being graphical and Linux being text-based; helps me remember what I'm doing.
Cloud based development and browser hosted environments would certainly be worth measuring. I imagine the numbers are tiny compared to other platforms.
Arduino IDE probably counts as something with decent numbers. Wokwi also makes for an interesting candidate in that area.
No suprise to see self-congratulations and more "I'm the only person who ever questioned genAI" nonsense as the key parts of this article. What a bore Marcus is.
Unless its open source I can't really see the point with bragging about it being in Rust. Its just another product, and its either faster or its not - the underlying language or platform is pretty irrelevant.
McKinsey a top firm? The report seems to focus on consultancies which are notorious for leeching huge amounts of money from non-specialist organisations by selling "expertise" to low-calibre execs in their clients in what is essentially an entrenched political merry-go-round.
The premise here might have some insights, but is hardly paradoxical (missing from the title posted here); you'd expect low-quality firms to have low-quality practices.
What a decline. Straight in I was hit by article restriction warnings and the whole thing was half adverts.
An interesting publication seems to have turned into yet another tatfest.
Doesn't look good for it's longevity as a source of decent reads, a shame.
Ps. Thanks to the submitter though for taking the time to add an archive link.
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