Development environment operating system distribution globally 2022-2023

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Ahmed Sherif
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Jul 8, 2025
According to a 2023 survey, some
**
percent of software developers working with desktop environments work on Windows applications, down from
**
percent of respondents in the previous year. Meanwhile, the share of software developers who used macOS for their development environment increased to
**
percent in 2023, up form 39 percent in the previous year.
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Desktop operating systems used by developers worldwide in 2022 and 2023

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Release date

November 2023

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2022 to 2023

Number of respondents

26,348 respondents

Special properties

Developers from 196 countries and regions

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Original question: "On which operating systems are your development environments?"

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