Its just all around cushy and comfortable.Ģ. Everything works, tools like homebrew make it pretty simple to deal with, and editors like Sublime and TextMate work wonderfully on the platform. It is an excellent platform for web development, particularly ruby, node, and python development.
That is certainly a reason, but it isn’t the only reason, and I would argue it isn’t even a all that high on the list of reasons…ġ. The only reason that MacBooks are so popular for developers is that developers NEED an OSX machine to compile for IOS by license.
