Mac developers spill all their deepest secrets
Swift isn’t always the language of choice for Mac developers, finds survey
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A wide-ranging new survey has revealed interesting insights into the coding preferences ofMacdevelopers.
The 2021 Mac Developer Survey surveyed more than 4000 programmers from over 90 countries and was conducted by Tower, which operates a Git client of the same name.
According to the report, while most Mac developers do full-stackweb development(26.3%), those that developiOS mobile appsmake up a quarter of the surveyed individuals.
Interestingly, despite working on a closed source platform, a majority of them contribute in some way or the other toopen sourceprojects.
Language soup
Perhaps the most amusing fact is that contrary to popular belief, it isJavaScriptthat’s the most preferred language by Mac developers instead of Swift.
The developers working on JavaScript (54.6%) far outnumber the ones that work on the Swift programming language (31.9%) developed byApple. Even more surprising is the revelation that a large number of Mac developers work with PHP (25.6%), andPython(24%).
In the same vein, while the number of Mac developers who expressed interest in working with Swift leads the pack at just over 28%, those interested in mastering Go (23.4%), Rust (23.2%), and Python (21.8%) make up a sizeable chunk as well.
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In terms of their choice oftext editorsand integrated development environments (IDEs), it’s no surprise thatVisual Studio Codewith 56.7% and Xcode with 33.8% are the favorites.
Similarly, the fact that 76% of the developers use GitHub to host their code isn’t surprising. What does raise eyebrows though is that slightly over 10% of Mac developers prefer to host their code themselves.
With almost two decades of writing and reporting on Linux, Mayank Sharma would like everyone to think he’sTechRadar Pro’sexpert on the topic. Of course, he’s just as interested in other computing topics, particularly cybersecurity, cloud, containers, and coding.
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