which are the conclusively superior development tools for engineer?
Most of the cutting-edge projects that I know have simple installation instructions in Linux/Mac, along the lines of “oh, you sudo apt-get project and then it manages all the dependencies for you and just works,” whereas getting them to work in Windows is something of a “alright, you need to get X, Y, and Z, and also want W but it doesn’t really work in Windows so here’s a hack to work around that kind of, which might stop working whenever they upgrade.”
I suspect this is the impression he’s pointing at.
Writing code on Windows works reasonably well if you stay within a pre-built environment (e.g. Visual Studio, Eclipse, R Studio, etc.) Stray out of it and you’ll be forced to painfully kludge together some bastardised version of Unix inside Windows.
Macs are Unix machines at their core (with a pretty GUI on top) so from the writing code point of view there isn’t a great difference between a Mac and, say, an Ubuntu machine.
By the way, Richard Wong’s favourite text editor—Sublime Text—is available on all three platforms.
Most of the cutting-edge projects that I know have simple installation instructions in Linux/Mac, along the lines of “oh, you sudo apt-get project and then it manages all the dependencies for you and just works,” whereas getting them to work in Windows is something of a “alright, you need to get X, Y, and Z, and also want W but it doesn’t really work in Windows so here’s a hack to work around that kind of, which might stop working whenever they upgrade.”
I suspect this is the impression he’s pointing at.
Yep.
Writing code on Windows works reasonably well if you stay within a pre-built environment (e.g. Visual Studio, Eclipse, R Studio, etc.) Stray out of it and you’ll be forced to painfully kludge together some bastardised version of Unix inside Windows.
Macs are Unix machines at their core (with a pretty GUI on top) so from the writing code point of view there isn’t a great difference between a Mac and, say, an Ubuntu machine.
By the way, Richard Wong’s favourite text editor—Sublime Text—is available on all three platforms.