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Honest question: do you need Apple hardware? Or Apple OS? Nowadays linux can certainly run on Apple hardware without any extra effort
by _lce0 10y ago
Honest question: do you need Apple hardware? Or Apple OS?
Nowadays linux can certainly run on Apple hardware without any extra effort
- nardi 10y agoDoes he need OS X in order to test that his code works on OS X? Yes. Edit: macOS!
- pjmlp 10y agoNot everyone wants UNIX clones and there are toons of goodies on the OS X stack for doing desktop development for people willing to pay for it.
- pawadu 10y ago> Not everyone wants UNIX clones Technically OS X is a "UNIX clone" > and there are toons of goodies on the OS X You mean there is a Clippy for OSX?
- pjmlp 10y ago> Technically OS X is a "UNIX clone" Yes it is, but it doesn't share the UNIX culture, rather the GUI culture inherited from the Xerox PARC ideas that impregnated Apple and NeXT. The UNIX compatibility was a requirement for NeXT to get a foot in the market targeted by Sun and Irix workstations. Apple and NeXT never had a culture of pure CLI applications and daemons.
- wruza 10y agoRecently I familiarized myself with Qt, that is often presented as core windows/linux framework. Half of linux apps is Qt. Years ago I also knew GTK+ 2.x very well. The other half is GTK. From developers perspective, Cocoa+AppKit/UIKit are orders of magnitude more powerful and conception-rich, and that is easily seen in UX, once you get base skills in it (i.e. stop believing 'it cannot do that', because 'it' mostly can).
- _acme 10y agoTechnically, macOS is UNIX, not a "clone".