Re:YC Hacks Winner: Athelas – Blood imaging and analysis fro...
by greggman on Wednesday August 06, 2014 @06:22AM
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You're right. It really depends on what you are making. MS's tools only target MS platforms. So if you're not trying to make something for an MS platform, or specifically Windows, then they're out of the question.
Mac has the advantage it's a flavor of unix so if you're writing server software you're on a machine that's closer to your target environment. Similarly if you run Linux. But, the tools on both of those don't come close to MS's tools when actually writing the software. At least that's mine and many other people's experience.
As just one example, state of the art debugging on Linux is still command line GDB. Even many of my mac friends switch back to GDB to debug on Mac. Where as on Windows Visual Studio's debugger has always been amazing to work with for like 20 year? (19?) Maybe Valve+RadGameTools will fix this with their work on LLDB but it can't be too soon.
As for India I'd assume they don't want to pay the Apple tax. Best Buy lists 147 PC laptops for under $499. The cheapest Apple is $999. And that's just on brand stuff. Go to further off brand stuff and the prices get even cheaper. I'm not judging quality or specs. But people without money would seem unlikely to pick the $999
Mac has the advantage it's a flavor of unix so if you're writing server software you're on a machine that's closer to your target environment. Similarly if you run Linux. But, the tools on both of those don't come close to MS's tools when actually writing the software. At least that's mine and many other people's experience.
As just one example, state of the art debugging on Linux is still command line GDB. Even many of my mac friends switch back to GDB to debug on Mac. Where as on Windows Visual Studio's debugger has always been amazing to work with for like 20 year? (19?) Maybe Valve+RadGameTools will fix this with their work on LLDB but it can't be too soon.
As for India I'd assume they don't want to pay the Apple tax. Best Buy lists 147 PC laptops for under $499. The cheapest Apple is $999. And that's just on brand stuff. Go to further off brand stuff and the prices get even cheaper. I'm not judging quality or specs. But people without money would seem unlikely to pick the $999