You shouldnt pollute your local system with all the dev libs you need anyway. With things like vagrant its very easy to put your projects into containers which

You shouldnt pollute your local system with all the dev libs you need anyway. With things like vagrant its very easy to put your projects into containers which run identical enviroments to your target. For these containers it also doesnt reallt matter if you run them from an osx, linux oder even windows host. Another option would be to get some remote Server and do your development there, which has the benefit of being available from anywhere. In that case you will have to use some form of remote editor like vim/emacs though since syncing from local is painful for bigger projects, especially if you work with different branches.