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OS X is a gateway drug to Unix. As a developer, Mac hardware got me started, but having easy access to -nix developer tools got me hooked. PHP, Ruby, Python, N
by jinushaun 15y ago
OS X is a gateway drug to Unix.
As a developer, Mac hardware got me started, but having easy access to -nix developer tools got me hooked. PHP, Ruby, Python, Node.js, git, etc... It's all so much easier with OS X. And if you're going to deploy to Linux on cheap shared hosting, you'll save yourself a lot of pain if you deploy from OS X instead of Windows. (e.g., PHP developers that insist on using WAMP)
That's the threat I see to MS. Developer mindshare. Besides StackOverflow, all the major startups use the -nix stack. The next Google or Facebook won't be built on .NET.