local development

We kicked a poll off three months ago asking y'all what kind of local development environment you set up for running WordPress locally. At the time of this writing, we got 2,623 votes, so a decent amount of significance here. Especially because the question was phrased:

If you're running WordPress locally (i.e running PHP, MySQL, and a web server), how are you doing it?

Presupposes that you are running a local environment. (Please do that.)

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I really have no idea how this will turn out. I suspect a ton of you have run or are currently running WordPress locally, but I have no clear guess on what the most popular way is to do that right now.

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