Ask HN: How do you develop on OS X

Re:Ask HN: How do you develop on OS X by zacharyvoase on Thursday February 09, 2012 @04:41PM (#3573225)

I'd definitely recommend using a virtual machine; even if I were running Linux I'd be using one. You can install your SSH key on the VM and have an iTerm2[1] profile which connects directly to it. I also use SSHFS[2] for shared directories so that I can edit my code in MacVim and TextMate, but run code and tests on the VM (note: I run headless VMs, attempting to run two GUIs in parallel on a MacBook Air wouldn't be pretty).

[1]: http://www.iterm2.com/ [2]: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/wiki/MACFUSE_FS_SSHFS

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Re:Ask HN: How do you develop on OS X by peter_l_downs on Thursday February 09, 2012 @06:56PM (#3573796)

  > I'd definitely recommend using a virtual machine; even if I were running Linux I'd be using one.

Why?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you develop on OS X by patrickpkt on Thursday February 09, 2012 @10:20PM (#3574345)

For me, it's to keep software versions consistent between development and production. Our servers run Ubuntu LTS, whereas I'd probably be using something more up-to-date if I were running Linux locally.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you develop on OS X by peter_l_downs on Thursday February 09, 2012 @11:49PM (#3574562)

Ah, yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I haven't had to deal with that sort of problem yet - thanks for the explanation!

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Re:Ask HN: How do you develop on OS X by jman1 on Thursday February 09, 2012 @04:47PM (#3573245)

I got a MBP 17 with 8GB Ram ..but I still dig the idea of a headless VM. Little surprised I never thought about it.

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