For the third (fourth?) year we’ve collected some facts on software tool usage from the students during the oral exam of the project Industrial IT and Embedded Systems at Chalmers University of Technology and Gothenburg University.
Question 1. What was your primary IDE/Editor when developing code?
| Gedit | 15 |
| Eclipse | 12 |
| GNU Emacs & clones | 21 |
| Notepad++ | 6 |
| Vi | 1 |
| Xcode | 3 |
| Genie | 1 |
| Visual Studio | 2 |
| Intellij | 1 |
| Notepad | 1 |
Question 2. What was your primary OS when developing code?
| Windows | 17 |
| Mac | 11 |
| GNU/Linux | 48 |
The above lumps together all GNU/Linux distributions. Looking separately at the these we get:
| Fedora | 1 |
| Ubuntu | 40 |
| Mint | 6 |
| Gentoo | 1 |
Question 3. What was your primary OS when not developing (write documents)?
| Windows | 38 |
| Mac | 12 |
| GNU/Linux | 26 |
