Apple is so blase toward developers that it will cut them off at the knees on a whim usually to protect its own interests. Microsoft will intentionally build i

Apple is so blase toward developers that it will cut them off at the knees on a whim usually to protect its own interests. Microsoft will intentionally build in scary hacks to maintain backward compatibility and tries to build developer-friendly tools and environments but tends toward a mess. Linux tends to maintain strong backward compatibility to the point that everything has incredible inertia, but in general doesn't too much care about developers one way or anothet. Google moves so quickly and deprecates so hard that building software on their platforms is like building a house in a continuous earthquake but using better tools and materials each time. Moral: nowhere is perfect, consider your trade-offs, then choose Linux (of course).