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Not my experience at all. Aside from some expected path issues (builds too stupid to actually look rather than assuming a disk layout, etc) and some BSD <-> Li
by __jal 10y ago
Not my experience at all.
Aside from some expected path issues (builds too stupid to actually look rather than assuming a disk layout, etc) and some BSD <-> Linux issues (builds that assume all the world runs linux), I've had very little problem getting most things working on OS X.
It does help to learn what Apple has, uh, improved. This point is related to what an awful time I have getting anything to work on Windows - I hate it and don't want to learn about it.
At least in the article, there are hints that the author hasn't taken the time to learn about the platform they want to run code on. Which is fine - I feel that way about Windows[1]. But it is also a good idea to understand why you're having the problems you're having.
[1] Which is why I don't touch Win at work and the VM I run at home is a hacky mess that works for what it does, but only after a few aircraft carriers-worth of cursing and slash-and-burn hacking that I know can't be the 'right' windows-land way to do things. (The abomination is completely firewalled off from the outside world - I try not to be a disease vector.)
- marmaduke 10y agoAren't you just expressing the same opinion about Windows as the parent about Mac? You are unfamiliar with it and so it takes more effort than you would like. Isn't this a tautology? Having built applications for all three platforms I find they all require a certain amount of patience but once you understand the motions, it's relatively painless.
- douche 10y agoIt's really not that hard to setup a Windows workstation...
- weberc2 10y agoI can vouch that it was at least as of Windows 7. But I hear the Windows folks now have a proper shell and some scriptable package management!
- fchopin 10y ago> Not my experience at all. Totally agree. We had developers recently join our team, which primarily uses OS X and Linux. They were excited about using Windows since they had previously been developing in .Net. They now appreciate that development in Windows is not as easy as Microsoft wants you to believe. The problem that won't go away anytime soon is that Microsoft spent years not making it easy on developers to develop in anything that isn't typical to develop in Visual Studio. They will not overcome that overnight. When a development team has focused on Windows, all is fine, but don't expect things to work without problems otherwise.