Coding Horror: Douchebaggery

Re:Coding Horror: Douchebaggery by pistoriusp on Thursday February 28, 2008 @04:29AM (#125356)

I used FreeBSD as my development platform until I got a Mac. The reason why is because the majority of websites are hosted on `nix platforms and as a programmer it's important for me to understand and experience the platform that my code is going to be running on.

If I was a Windows programmer I wouldn't know about cron, symlinks, du, etc... And I might waste an exceptional amount of time trying to code an already available feature in `nix.

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Re:Coding Horror: Douchebaggery by kingkongrevenge on Thursday February 28, 2008 @03:45PM (#125659)

I work with a bunch of rxvt terminals, a browser, and a few gvim windows. It's the same damn setup on either Windows or Linux once I have Cygwin and Virtual Dimension (virtual desktops for Windows) installed.

If you're deploying to a Unix server, i.e. not writing desktop apps or systems code, I fail to see how it matters what OS you're using. The dev tools are all ported.

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