Re:Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
by kelnos on Friday January 28, 2022 @03:33PM
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> macOS is mainly targeted at secretaries, managers and artists. Tech work isn't designed to be compatible with a mac.
I don't think this is true at all. Despite not developing Mac applications, we've (Twilio) been a Mac shop since day one, 14 years ago. This was driven by our three founders, who, at the time, were all engineers. These days our IT department offers Windows machines for employees who need it for some reason, but uptake is likely in the single-digit percentages.
And I know a lot of people who do technical work at various companies whose primary work machine is a MacBook Pro.
This might be a Silicon Valley startup thing. I would expect the Stack Overflow survey is skewed pretty hard toward Windows due to big corporate enterprises that aren't tech companies. It seems to me that most "tech companies" prefer Macs.
> Take for example using netcat. The version available to Mac is 17 years old and lacking some useful flags
I run Linux, so I don't have firsthand experience with much of this, but everyone I know who uses macOS for development has something like Homebrew installed, so they can get up-to-date versions of the various tools that are outdated in the default macOS install.
I don't think this is true at all. Despite not developing Mac applications, we've (Twilio) been a Mac shop since day one, 14 years ago. This was driven by our three founders, who, at the time, were all engineers. These days our IT department offers Windows machines for employees who need it for some reason, but uptake is likely in the single-digit percentages.
And I know a lot of people who do technical work at various companies whose primary work machine is a MacBook Pro.
This might be a Silicon Valley startup thing. I would expect the Stack Overflow survey is skewed pretty hard toward Windows due to big corporate enterprises that aren't tech companies. It seems to me that most "tech companies" prefer Macs.
> Take for example using netcat. The version available to Mac is 17 years old and lacking some useful flags
I run Linux, so I don't have firsthand experience with much of this, but everyone I know who uses macOS for development has something like Homebrew installed, so they can get up-to-date versions of the various tools that are outdated in the default macOS install.