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oblak | 2 years ago

1. Build a pipeline with macOS in mind (because "All engineers I know have Macs")

2. Complain when the macOS-oriented process doesn't work for everyone.

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WeylandYutani|2 years ago

Apple is doing what people hated Microsoft for. It's amazing that a closed ecosystem is so welcomed by Apple fans. But I suppose man has always been tribal.

Dylan16807|2 years ago

Any closed ecosystem is annoying but I'm not going to complain very hard while their desktop market share is below 20-25%.

ezfe|2 years ago

I work on a split team, Windows and macOS. We do straightforward Java work and most of the problems that we have are related to installing command-line software on Windows.

Installing Postgres, Redis, etc. on Windows is wildly complicated compared to on macOS or Linux.

jimmaswell|2 years ago

Tried WSL?

edgyquant|2 years ago

It was actually built out with Linux in mind since that’s what everyone deploys to. Mac just happens to work flawlessly with Linux and windows doesn’t