Today many people run their development environments in VMs with something like vagrant. That, plus the fact that *nix utilities are available through cygwin, m

Today many people run their development environments in VMs with something like vagrant. That, plus the fact that *nix utilities are available through cygwin, make the choice of OS to run your editor in pretty unimportant and more a matter of personal preference. I still use a Mac but i don't use any OSX specific software apart from some small tools which i could easily replace on other OSes.