> Look at a comp sci class in the last decade, and you'll see 1/2-2/3rds of them with MacBook Pros in their laps, Perhaps in some countries, definitely not eve

> Look at a comp sci class in the last decade, and you'll see 1/2-2/3rds of them with MacBook Pros in their laps, Perhaps in some countries, definitely not everywhere. At my university, there is only a single Mac across 40 or so laptops. > because it compiles iOS apps I doubt students buy Macs for that. iPhones are not nearly as popular outside the US. > and it's a *nix Students don’t care about its UNIX certification. Most don’t even know what that is when they start their undergrad. > it easily runs most of the same tools as a linux webserver No, it does not. Many important dev tools are not available, not even through brew. > That's what WSL is about, trying to win back developers Globally, the majority of developers are on Windows/Linux, not macOS. > They're trying to make it feasible to target a linux webserver I’d bet this is about avoiding Linux becoming the major platform for ML/DS/AI, rather than anything about macOS.