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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by akho on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @09:35AM (#31096717)
Safari and VSCode are not open source.

Most people who value freedom in software for practical reasons are motivated by having a way to fix or work around inconveniences, having a community and an active discussion on features, general composability and hackability of software, …

macOs (with all respect to their UI achievements) gives you none of that.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at ... by ezfe on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:51AM (#31098728)
Safari isn't, you're correct - but WebKit is. And Safari does fall into the category of things that can be fully replaced.
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