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davidmurdochyesterday at 2:55 PM1 replyview on HN

Perhaps. Though Windows has been the majority share even when stack overflow was at it's peak, and before.


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petercooperyesterday at 7:06 PM

It's not the whole answer, but SO came from the .NET world and focused on it first so it had a disproportionately MS heavy audience for some time. GitHub had the same issue the other way around. Ruby was one of GitHub's top five languages for its first decade for similar reasons.