Surveyor Evans Data have released reports that show Windows developers are on the decline, while the number of Linux developers is increasing. Though only 400 developers are queried, it’s hard to discredit the decline. Developers for Windows platforms was 74% of the total market in 2006, but has now dropped to 64.8%, while Linux has gone from 8% to 12%. No information regarding Mac OS X and other OS systems were elaborated on.
In other findings in the Evans Data Spring North American Development survey, Evans found that JavaScript is the most widely used scripting language. It has more than three times the users of PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), Ruby, or Python. But Ruby usage is expected to increase by 50 percent within the coming year.
Source: Info World