alt Hacker NewsAt least here in the US, the majority of developers daily drive macs on their desktop. Even (especially!) the ones that deploy exclusively on linux.
Having to run a docker container to get the dev env setup would be even more likely to slow adoption. Nobody wants to do that shit.
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But almost nobody uses MacOS to run CI, which is usually how artifacts are built for the field. Having linux support first means people can actually use this for production (this project seems from from ready for that anyway) with some inconvenience for local dev.
MacOS only means I can work with it on my machine, but can't actually build it using CI/CD.
>At least here in the US, the majority of developers daily drive macs on their desktop
Citation needed. This assertion seems very anecdotal.
> At least here in the US, the majority of developers daily drive macs on their desktop.
The majority of WEB developers.
Citation needed, Windows is probably still bigger as Macs are expensive.
> At least here in the US, the majority of developers daily drive macs on their desktop.
Not according to statista.com (I am not a registered user, but it looks like you could register for no cost, in order to check the source):
https://www.statista.com/statistics/869211/worldwide-softwar...
Windows is the majority OS for development, with Unix/Linux and Mac being close to equal, but both considerably less than Windows.
This is also consistent with the 2023 Stack Overflow Developer Survey (https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/):
Under the "Operating System" heading it says:
[edited to include Stack Overflow survey]