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How many developers do the different platforms have?

I noticed that Joel Spolsky repeatedly estimated the worldwide number of developers at 4 million in the Stackoverflow podcast. So, how many developers do the different platforms, such as Java, .NET/Windows, Flash, PHP, Python, Ruby etc., really have? This article puts Windows developers at 6 million, comment no. 2 in this article claims 2 million Flash developers and 6 million Java developers, and the second comment here claimed 4.5 million Java developers in 2005 and 3 million in 2003.

Now you can debate who's counted as a developer, and there are developers working on multiple platforms, but the number seems to be higher than 4 million by quite a bit.

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C#

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AnthonyWJones  2009-02-05 22:46:26
I was asking for platforms, not specific languages. So C# is part of the .NET/Windows platform to me.
Karsten Silz  2009-02-05 22:52:01
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Javascript

AnthonyWJones  2009-02-05 22:47:19
Javascript isn't a platform to me, because it is part of a web application which in turn runs on a platform (Java, .NET, PHP, Python etc.).
Karsten Silz  2009-02-05 22:53:23

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