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According to the Stack Overflow survey, approximately 50% of all programmers who filled out the survey use Windows and 26.6% use macOS.
Which means, macOS is punching above it's weight, by 2x with programmers then with regular users.
This is why that poll is interesting. macOS are over represented in regards to programmers by two times.
Well, I bet this is also because of web development. macOS is the perfect platform for web development. Even better than Linux. Of course with a prettier, more consistent and usable UI as an added bonus over Linux or Windows.
With macOS you can run basically the same software environment locally as the one you have on your webserver. And, if you are doing frontend development like me, and need graphics software in addition, well you have it (and in general much much more other software than you will ever find on Linux)
You also have a lot of good dev software that is "mac only" (like Paw, a very nice HTTP / curl client) or at least "mac first" (like Tower, a great git client). Also good capability to run basically every OS / test environment via Parallels or VMWare, and even emulator related stuff that runs on macOS only (like the iOS Simulator, and Android Emulators in addition)
No other OS (imho) does offer such a rich and usable environment especially for web development. Ah and I forgot that on macOS you can also do both development for Android and iOS (and again, the latter is macOS only)
So, I am not too surprised about this