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dallas | 1 year ago

In > two decades I've never set eyes upon someone using Apple hardware for development unless it's as a dumb terminal. I work in embedded, hardware and applications, not mobile, web or scientific. I am sure such users are out there.

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solardev|1 year ago

Heh, I used to work for a solar PV system manufacturer. Half the office was embedded systems and hardware engineers, who all ran System76 or Framework laptops. All the web devs had Macs. Management all used ThinkPads. You could tell what somebody did there just by looking at their laptops. And well, I guess the oscilloscopes were a bit of a giveaway too :)

afruitpie|1 year ago

In my much shorter 5 years, I’ve seen devs exclusively using Apple hardware.

And in my team, our dev environment has become increasingly local!

ActorNightly|1 year ago

If you arent doing stuff that touches low level OS or high performance compute, it doesnt really matter what you use. Ive switched to Samsung Dex with a lapdock, and can easily do python and node dev. For high performance, I simply run a cloudflared tunnel to my home box.

bnchrch|1 year ago

In my decade its been majority MacOS. But Ive worked on the other side of this fence.

throwaway3306a|1 year ago

I have the exact opposite experience. Anyone not using a Mac gets raised eyebrows.