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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by jimbokun on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @07:09PM (#12850963)
Even for developers, there are often apps available for MacOS but not Linux that can be very important for specific tasks. Audio/video/photo editing apps, Office, Exchange support, etc.

(I'm sure there are many workarounds for Linux for all of these, but I'm willing to bet they take a lot more to get working than on Mac.)

So Macs are in a sweet spot, of being both outstanding development machines, great application support, and no questions about hardware support.

Also, Mac OS absolutely has package managers for command line software.

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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by BipolarElsa on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @07:36PM (#12851106)
Yeah but if you want to develop in C++, Java or C# you're gonna need visual studio thus rendering macOS useless.
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by unrealhoang on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:15PM (#12851793)
For C#, there is an obvious need for a Windows machine (at least for now). But I don't see the reason why I need to have visual studio to develop C++ or Java. Especially Java, where IntelliJ is just simply better and it's available everywhere.
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by ivm on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @11:24PM (#12852035)
Xamarin Studio is good enough for Unity3d and Mono.
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by flukus on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @07:39PM (#12851129)
Why would you need VS for c++, or especially java? The both have plenty of IDE's.
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by BipolarElsa on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @04:06AM (#12852972)
What are the top IDEs for C++ and Java for macOS? Thanks.
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by flukus on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @05:25AM (#12853212)
For java you've got eclipse and intellij, probably more. I don't know about c++.

There's always emacs/vim in any case.

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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by BipolarElsa on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @05:06PM (#12859265)
Emacs is s o f u c k i n g h a r d t o u s e
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by flukus on Wednesday November 02, 2016 @05:30PM (#12859482)
A high learning curve is fine for a tool you'll use the rest of your life.
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by BipolarElsa on Thursday November 03, 2016 @05:56AM (#12862645)
It's 3 in the morning and I've been tinkering with Emacs since Noon. Is it just me or is Emacs oddly addictive?
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by RotsiserMho on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @10:04PM (#12851740)
I develop in C++ and have been happy with a combination of Qt Creator and XCode.
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by wruza on Tuesday November 01, 2016 @08:51PM (#12851459)
If you want to develop in C#, anything except msw10 renders useless, including that program.
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Re:Return of the Mac (2005) by BipolarElsa on Thursday November 03, 2016 @05:57AM (#12862647)
Can you elaborate? I don't understand.
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