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> Apple still makes great products. Nothing can beat a MacBook I have quite a few computers on my desk these days. * Late model Windows laptop * M1 MAcOS lap
by worik 4y ago
> Apple still makes great products. Nothing can beat a MacBook
I have quite a few computers on my desk these days.
* Late model Windows laptop
* M1 MAcOS laptop
* iPad
* Android phone
* Raspberry Pi
The point of telling this story is the computer with, by a long distance, best development environment/tools is the Raspberry Pi.
As for user experience, the Windows machine is not too bad, the iPad and Android phone are horrid limited little things. I prefer the Pi, but I can recognise the quality of the MacOS environment. My taste is with the Raspberry Pi. Especially because I can turn of the (fucking) GUI and use it in true text mode.
I learnt programming on the then magical Macintosh computers 1989-1992. They were really something technologically. So far ahead of anything else within ten times the cost.
Those days are gone for Apple. Thank you for the memories.
- shepherdjerred 4y ago> best development environment/tools is the Raspberry Pi The best development environment for _you_ is the Raspberry Pi. Most people are going to want a GUI. Most users (even the vast majority of developers!) are not comfortable using a terminal 24/7. Most are going to be using whatever IDE they learned on, or whatever their team uses. That's certainly going to be a full GUI IDE that is resource-hungry. Even not considering those aspects, just compiling code takes forever. I've tried using a Raspberry Pi before as a day-to-day device. It works okay, but you're going to miss speed quickly