I've used Linux, Windows and OS X.
I don't consider OS X to be a development environment for serious development. I do consider Linux and Windows to be real dev tools.
I don't consider OS X to be a development environment for serious development. I do consider Linux and Windows to be real dev tools.
You are indirectly saying that people doing development on OSX are not 'serious developers' or at least are not doing 'serious development.'
[ What is the difference between 'serious development' and regular development anyways? I'm pretty sure that Apple employees aren't developing iOS and OSX on Windows or Linux. Do you not consider systems-level (building an operating system) development to be 'serious'? ]
Where I work, it's a 50/40/10% split between Windows, OS X and Linux as our DE's, though most of us run a Linux VM for the development server to run on. Makes life easier that way, and with Vagrant we're all running the exact same environment, despite differing opinions on how to do things!
If we had to target UNIX systems, the development was done via XWindows or telnet/ssh to common build servers.
It's really easy to get caught up in the SV culture, but it's by no means the rule. There's millions of developers out there whose code is never made public, writing Java, .NET, C, C++, Ada, Fortran, and other languages that HN would regard as obscure, niche, or dead. They're consulting or working for small businesses, medium size businesses, enterprises, local, state, federal governments.
I don't know if most of them use Windows, but it's definitely a hugely substantial fraction. It's not a small minority.