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    Slashdot - Why Developers Are Switching To Macs

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by domyalex, Nov 17, 2008.

  1. domyalex

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    There's a much lengthier, more technological, and, IMO, more interesting article on developers switching from Windows to Mac OSX here on ArsTechnica. Interestingly, though, this passage:

    actually sounds quite like the trouble the author of the Ars article was saying was a problem driving developers from Windows to OSX - only this is an OSX problem. But of course, many programs don't use any networking features at all.

    Were you formerly a Windows/Linux/Unix programmer? I do most of my programming in Linux now myself; its Unicode terminal by default is a big advantage over Windows/Mac for me and its terminal commands are better than Windows as well. But since most of my stuff is Java/C++, outside of the unicode terminal it really doesn't matter that much to me what platform I'm programming on so long as it's got the tools I need.
     
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    I'm a Java developer, I live with Eclipse open and lately have started using MySQL (used Intersystem's Cache before).

    Formerly I used Win XP, but now I can't imagine going back. I don't know, it just feels "good" (if that makes any sense...) to work in OS X. Terminal is definitely a big plus for me, especially since our servers run Solaris or Ubuntu.
     
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    I do perl, python, objective-c, and java programming on os x and haven't had a problem. OS X also got me interested in BSD as well, so I'm dabbling with my own FreeBSD server and thinking about converting my Xbox into a BSD server as well for fun. Right now, I'd rather do development on OS X than Windows any day.
     
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    All of the reasons above, plus price competitive nowadays

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Nov 18, 2008
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