Living and coding on a Mac. My friend and fellow O’Reillyite Edd Dumbill made the switch to OS X and a MacBook Pro earlier this year, and has written up some interesting notes on what makes it a good coding machine.
Edd, formerly a steadfast Ubuntu user of many years experience, now develops Rails applications and makes clear his appreciation of OS X as a Rails dev environment, especially using TextMate:
Developing Rails applications on a Mac is sweet, and yes, TextMate really is that good. My jilted .emacs languishes in lonely misery.
Edd’s opinions reflect his particular circumstances and current interests, but it got me wondering about other Linux-to-OS X switchers who write code: why did they choose Mac?
If you fall into that category and you’d like to share, please do tell us your thoughts in the comments. By webmaster@oreillynet.com (Giles Turnbull). [Mac DevCenter]
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