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All of google's backend code is written on Linux desktops. OSX is common for laptops, but real code isn't permitted to touch their drives.
by GauntletWizard 12y ago
All of google's backend code is written on Linux desktops. OSX is common for laptops, but real code isn't permitted to touch their drives.
- what_ever 12y ago> but real code isn't permitted to touch their drives Do you mean one is not allowed to check out the code on OSX and sync to the dev/linux box?
- Psyonic 12y agoWhen I was there, that's exactly how it worked. Obviously not the case if you were doing OSX or iPhone dev, but otherwise no code on your laptop.
- diminoten 12y agoThat's a security rule, not an anti-OS X rule. I still bet that the majority of engineers at Google use OS X on their primary laptops (and they still wouldn't be allowed to put the code on their laptops, even if the laptops were Linux).