Hi, For me, Windows is not even remotely comparable to OS X for a software development machine. These are some very useful tools for software development that come with OS X. Straight out of the box.
crab:~ shaun$ which python /usr/bin/python crab:~ shaun$ which ruby /usr/bin/ruby crab:~ shaun$ which perl /usr/bin/perl crab:~ shaun$ which apachectl /usr/sbin/apachectl crab:~ shaun$ which at /usr/bin/at crab:~ shaun$ which emacs /usr/bin/emacs crab:~ shaun$ which vi /usr/bin/vi crab:~ shaun$ which java /usr/bin/java crab:bin shaun$ which diff /usr/bin/diff crab:share shaun$ which patch /usr/bin/patch crab:bin shaun$ which svn /usr/bin/svn crab:bin shaun$ which head /usr/bin/head crab:bin shaun$ which tail /usr/bin/tail crab:bin shaun$ which grep /usr/bin/grep crab:bin shaun$ which find /usr/bin/find crab:bin shaun$ which awk /usr/bin/awk crab:bin shaun$ which sed /usr/bin/sed crab:bin shaun$ which bash /bin/bash crab:bin shaun$ which zip /usr/bin/zip crab:bin shaun$ which tar /usr/bin/tar crab:bin shaun$ which ssh /usr/bin/ssh crab:bin shaun$ which scp /usr/bin/scp crab:share shaun$ which curl /usr/bin/curl crab:share shaun$ which ftp /usr/bin/ftp Then there's the free(as in beer) Apple Developer Tools, which you need to install, but include: XCode and all the other good stuff it brings, including WebObjects, IPhone SDK, general Cocoa SDK tools, various profilers etc etc. the list just goes on an on.. In my experience IDEs like Eclipse, Flex Builder, Netbeans etc etc work fine on OS X. Basically, OS X is a /great/ developer platform. cheers, - shaun
