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Perhaps in some countries, definitely not everywhere. At my university, there is only a single Mac across 40 or so laptops.
> because it compiles iOS apps
I doubt students buy Macs for that. iPhones are not nearly as popular outside the US.
> and it's a *nix
Students don’t care about its UNIX certification. Most don’t even know what that is when they start their undergrad.
> it easily runs most of the same tools as a linux webserver
No, it does not. Many important dev tools are not available, not even through brew.
> That's what WSL is about, trying to win back developers
Globally, the majority of developers are on Windows/Linux, not macOS.
> They're trying to make it feasible to target a linux webserver
I’d bet this is about avoiding Linux becoming the major platform for ML/DS/AI, rather than anything about macOS.
Perhaps in some countries, definitely not everywhere. At my university, there is only a single Mac across 40 or so laptops.
> because it compiles iOS apps
I doubt students buy Macs for that. iPhones are not nearly as popular outside the US.
> and it's a *nix
Students don’t care about its UNIX certification. Most don’t even know what that is when they start their undergrad.
> it easily runs most of the same tools as a linux webserver
No, it does not. Many important dev tools are not available, not even through brew.
> That's what WSL is about, trying to win back developers
Globally, the majority of developers are on Windows/Linux, not macOS.
> They're trying to make it feasible to target a linux webserver
I’d bet this is about avoiding Linux becoming the major platform for ML/DS/AI, rather than anything about macOS.