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Ive seen Linux devs on MacOS fall down several traps of thinking their NetBSD based MacOS is equivalent to Linux. One common pitfall I see is with filesystem a

Ive seen Linux devs on MacOS fall down several traps of thinking their NetBSD based MacOS is equivalent to Linux. One common pitfall I see is with filesystem access. Mac, by default, has case insensitive filenames (like Windows), opposite of Linux. Yes Mac supports case sensitive, but it is not the default and apparently a lot of apps dont take this into account and fail spectacularly when case sensitivity is turned on (I can't provide any examples, I dont use Mac, its just anecdotal from reading online).

halter73 8y ago
This was a while ago, but when Steam was first introduced on macOS, it did not play nice with my case-sensitive HFS+ partition. When I first set up my Mac, I thought case-sensitivity would be a good idea just in case I ever had to copy files from another case-sensitive file system. I never did need the case-sensitivity, but I did have to repartition to get Steam working. It thought me a good lesson about switching away from defaults "just in case."
monocasa 8y ago
The ones I've seen doing linux dev from within macos these days are using docker.