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The primary reason macs are popular for development is that they’re Unix based. Even Docker, for example, runs natively on Linux and Macs and doesn’t on Window
by rhaway84773 3y ago
The primary reason macs are popular for development is that they’re Unix based.
Even Docker, for example, runs natively on Linux and Macs and doesn’t on Windows (or didn’t initially at least…heck it wasn’t even available on Windows for many years until MS itself worked with Docker to bring it to Windows).
NodeJS took 2 years to come to Windows, again with MS having to work with Joyent yo achieve this, but was available on Linux and Mac from the outset.
- nottorp 3y ago> Even Docker, for example, runs natively on Linux and Macs It runs natively on Linux. On Macs it starts a Linux VM and then does containers inside that, which adds overhead (and seems to preallocate a lot of ram). Other than that yes, you can have a working GUI and a unixy enough command line on the same machine. And that's why I switched to macs... from linux.
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