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The best tool is the closest one to what other devs are using. Why? If you have a problem, other devs won't be trying to separate the difference of the system a
by chipuni 9y ago
The best tool is the closest one to what other devs are using. Why? If you have a problem, other devs won't be trying to separate the difference of the system against the problem.
(Do all your other devs really use Macintoshes? Maybe you could buy one a few generations old, to save money.)
- kcorbitt 9y agoThis is the right answer. If you'll be working on similar things/running the same code as the other developers, just get a Mac (can be old/refurbished to save money). You'll save a ton of headache over trying to figure out where the inevitable incompatibilities are coming from.
- lonesword 9y agoApart from one guy using a cheap student laptop and another guy running archlinux on god knows what, the overwhelming majority works on a Mac. But we deploy on Ubuntu. Also, there's no point in buying a Mac and solving problems that were not there in the first place while using Linux ;)