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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by bigfudge on Friday January 03, 2025 @03:44AM (#42583822)
As an original Macintosh user who discovered programming via HyperCard and Unix through OS X I’d disagree. I think there are a fair number of people like me who can’t bear the ugliness (in all senses) of windows and the time sink of Linux but do love composable open source utilities and text files for parts of our work.
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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by pjmlp on Friday January 03, 2025 @04:23AM (#42584046)
Then you are pretty much aware that until OS X, Mac OS developers and users hardly cared about command line.

Most would only get it via MPW, and outside automating compiler workflows, hardly open the terminal.

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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by dangus on Friday January 03, 2025 @10:33AM (#42586496)
That was almost 30 years ago.

People on classic Mac weren’t making web apps running on Linux servers.

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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by pjmlp on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:02AM (#42586757)
Doesn't change the point of culture.

Also many of those people, if they want to deploy on Linux servers, they would be better off using local Linux development, not OS X.

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Re:iTerm2 critical security release by frou_dh on Friday January 03, 2025 @11:59AM (#42587301)
Even if someone exclusively writes software that ends up running on Linux servers, doesn't mean they don't appreciate various nice Mac-exclusive applications as a user during their workday.

An example: I love everything about the Things task management app so much that I would never choose to run a desktop OS it doesn't run on.

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