With look feel totally inconsistent with the rest of the UI. Fugly.

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Is Java Bad Mac OS X

However, Im still having a hard time understanding why programmers enthusiastically choose Mac OS X over Windows and Linux.

Although Windows is not nix based, you can pretty much develop on any platform or language, except CocoaObjective-C.

However, I dont see what strong merits Mac OS X has over Windows.

If you develop daily on Mac and prefer Mac over anything else, can you give me a merit that Mac has over WindowsLinux Maybe something you can do on Mac that cannot be done in WindowsLinux with the same level of ease.

Windows here. I tried to find things that can be done on Mac but not on Windows with the same level of ease, but I couldnt.

The only programmers I know who use OS X are those developing iPhone apps.

I also happen to be a programmer who uses OS X, and Im not an iPhone developer.

Granted Ive been using Macs for over 15 years, but still.).

Probably 5 macbooks to 1 windows laptop (rarely see linux nowadays).

These events arent necessarily for developing the next iPhone or Mac apps.

I ask people at those events why they use macbooks, and most of them usually think its just cool to have macbooks or dont know that Windows can do the same thing or even better.

Most coders I know hate Macs, some dont, but there are fashion victims in many walks of life.

Apparently Im not the only one switching from OSX back to Linux.

Is Java Bad Software Youre Looking

If youre not lucky, there is no MacPort for software youre looking for.

Sometimes compilation instructions for OSX 10.5 will work on 10.6, sometimes they wont.

They are not compatible at all with each other, and using more than one of them at time guarantees total chaos and rendering your OSS unusable.

It will be ugly, unresponsive and at times will display bunch of NA instead of menu.

But its OSX so whod care about ergonomy when you can have eyecandy.

I mean, if youd like interface designed about ppl who care about HCI, youd choose Linux or Win7 anyway.

Update: this seems to be finally fixed in Mavericks, even though last 2 years Ive been told numerous times that it would contradict the Mac way ).

None of them has full feature set (comparing to default consoles in Linux), each of them has at least one of the problems (like messed up line wrapping, no tab support or problems with UTF-8).

But on OSX, unlike on Linux, you cannot expect Apple to actually backport the fix and release it in software update.

So youre back to square one OSX is a niche system, and it makes your life as developer harder, while mainstream systems, like Linux, make it easier.

With look feel totally inconsistent with the rest of the UI.

Is Java Bad For Mac