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Conducted each year since 2013, the StackOverflow Developer Survey covers a broad swath of tech-related issues, including everything from most popular platform to the highest earning programming language and Star Wars vs. Star Trek preference. The results of 2016s survey suggest that, if anything, the tech world is only growing more dynamic and disruptive. The top trending tech, for example, was React, a JavaScript library that's relatively new to the market.
Having been officially launched in 2013, Reacts 311.3 percent growth in usage was, according to the survey, by far the biggest year-to-year spike. Comparing that number with more traditional languages, such as Objective C, which saw an 18.5 percent dip in usage, suggests that we are moving into a phase of major disruption, where new technologies are establishing themselves quickly as major players in the industry. One of the more interesting revelations from the StackOverflow survey was the preferred operating system for developers and programmers. For the first time in the surveys history, Mac OS X was the number one choice for preferred operating system among developers, finally bypassing Windows 7 and Linux, which came in second and third, respectively. Notably, Windows most recent operating system was well behind its Apple counterpart, despite a recent major push in popularity for Windows 10. While 26.2 percent of programmers reported preferring Mac OS X, Windows 10 only resonated with 20.8 percent of respondents.
This result might come as a surprise to many in tech, who remember a time not too long ago when the idea of Apples OS X being the preferred operating system among programmers was considered preposterous. Until quite recently, Apple computers were often associated with designers and college students. While those two groups might still prefer Apple, there not alone, as developers seem to be making the move to OS X in droves. The StackOverflow survey results from previous years suggest that OS Xs ascendancy has been gradualist has climbed up one spot each year from third place since 2014but the rise to first place still has many people wondering exactly why Mac OS X has become the preferred operating system. What is the reason for the change? Turns out, Mac OS X have a number of good things going for it in the eyes of developers. Perhaps most important is the fact that OS X is built on top of Unix, one of the most popular command operating systems for servers and file systems.