Poll: Which platforms do you develop for?

&#x27;Web&#x27; is a bit ambiguous here. It could plausibly mean either writing http services predominantly used by native apps or client-side browser development, which are really quite different.<p>The original question was better, I think, because it was clearly restricted to which <i>client</i> platform people are targeting.<p>I&#x27;m surprised that the ratios within purely client mobile platforms haven&#x27;t really changed that much, apart from a few new marginal entrants. Given what I&#x27;ve seen from freelance offers and job ads, I&#x27;d have expected the iOS-Android ratio to have shifted further in favour Android than it has compared to two years ago, when it was basically all iOS.

This just strengthens my view that the open web is the future, although a lot of people will tell you the exact opposite.

Oops, I clicked &quot;Linux&quot; before noticing the &quot;Web&quot; option (I build web apps which run on Linux).

Other =&gt; HP-UX, Solaris, Aix, Wii, PSP, XBox, PS1-4, PS Vita

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Bar graph so far:<p><a href="http://quickhist.onloop.net/Android=57,BlackBerry=3,Chrome%20Store=12,Firefox%20Marketplace=9,iOS=61,Linux=108,OSX=40,Steam=4,Web=211,Windows=58,Windows%20Phone=9,Windows%20Store=6,Other=12,Embedded%20or%20RTOS=4/Which%20platform%20do%20you%20develop%20for%3F%20:%20HN%20Poll,%20Oct%2024%20%2713" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;quickhist.onloop.net&#x2F;Android=57,BlackBerry=3,Chrome%2...</a>

I develop an operating system running on bare metal :). It&#x27;s sort of an appliance, but I don&#x27;t think Xeons really qualify as embedded.

I was thinking about how popular Go is and looking at example code which to me is fairly clean. Anyway Go seems popular and looks cool and I think that is the next thing I am going to learn.<p>But the point is, what I am doing with Web applications for the most part is making rich UIs. So I was thinking, since Go compiles so fast, why not just download Go source and escape the browser, and get faster execution etc.? I mean I still think ToffeeScript is the best thing ever but Go is not bad at all.<p>So what I was thinking of making would be some kind of P2P-based DHT thing, totally decentralized of course, using UDP, and you can use it to distribute whatever, but two main things would be something like a web site but it would just be markdown and a tarball with Go code. Then you would display the markdown (maybe let them embed svg) and a button &quot;Run Application&quot; and sandbox the Go code with something like this <a href="https://github.com/zond/gosafe" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;zond&#x2F;gosafe</a>. Maybe have a way to tag sites or some kind of data-oriented alternative to domains. Point being we are using the web to make it convenient to distribute and access sandboxed applications (even the front ends for e-commerce stuff are becoming thick clients in a lot of cases).<p>It would be nice if we could break out of the browser and also weren&#x27;t subject to the limitations of JavaScript. And I wouldn&#x27;t miss HTML or CSS at all to tell the truth. And the other part of this is that the whole server-based model we have needs to go and be replaced with data-oriented networking.

It would be interesting to see how RWD replaces native applications on mobile platforms. This is something what we do at <a href="http://codedose.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;codedose.com</a> to make our corporate intranet web applications accessible from smaller factor devices without charging clients for native app development.

Only a minority (&lt; 10%) of web developers develop for Chrome Store&#x2F;Firefox Marketplace. Why would that be? As far as I can think, the advantages of putting on these stores are clear and there isn&#x27;t much friction to adapt the app for them. Am I missing something?

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it interesting to see which subset of developers are most common at hacker news.<p>its not really surprising considering the content and philosophy that Linux and Web are rating so highly - but its nice to see anyway. :)

BSD, Linux, OS X, Cygwin, OpenIndiana, Minix, IRIX, HP-UX...

Let me know if you would like to add a choice.<p>Edit: Added Embedded&#x2F;RTOS.

For those who upvote Linux, could i know what kind of software you make? I rarely hear people who build desktop app for Linux.

There must be a better way to do this. I can&#x27;t un vote and we can&#x27;t see the breakdown in a pie&#x2F;bar chart.

It&#x27;s impressive really: Linux has(almost) more votes than Windows + Android together

NetBSD

What ever the bill-payer wants.

Java

VMS

No MVS or z&#x2F;OS!?

Web

Linux

for web browser generally

BlackBerry!? - does it still exist?