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Linux has higher share than MacOS among software developers (www.jetbrains.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Source: JetBrains' "The State of Developer Ecosystem in 2023" survey

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Not a surprise for those with containerised workloads. Mac is a nightmare for that. Every single dev team with mac that I've been on has struggled with it. Heard all these things and more:

We can't use Docker Desktop due to licensing!
podman doesn't work, but colima does
npm install takes forever!
Why can't it find the docker socket?
This only works on x86
The port-forwarding didn't work
XYZ works in the dev-container but not when deployed

Recreating a problem you encountered with your container in a x86 linux VM in the cloud on a mac with apple silicon is no fun either.

And good luck with custom hardware on a mac. Working from home with stuff that was plug and play on linux simply refused to work on mac. Ergonomic mice, keyboards, USB-C docks, high-quality webcams, USB headsets... Either you're in the Apple ecosystem or you're gonna have a bad time.

If an employer doesn't allow me to install linux on my dev machine, then I move on.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I agree with everything but the "This only works on x86". I'm not saying that everything runs smoothly on arm, but I think it really is the future. Either that, or risc-v. I doubt riscv will garner a mainstream adoption anytime soon though, but one could only dream.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

well yeah arm is definitely the future, but edge cases and undefined behavior make parity between the instruction sets a major pain

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Gdb doesn't work at all on m1 macs

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