Another reason the Mac has continued to be so popular is that has included Ruby, Rails & SQLite out of the box for the past few years. This means you can have a working Rails environment on every new machine. You can even do native development (full GUI desktop applications) on the Mac in Ruby.
At a lower level, the typical language for Mac development, Objective-C, has many structural similarities to Ruby (you can do the equivalent of mixing in modules to any class at runtime) so there are general philosophies that are in sync. Finally, if you look at Rails alone... it's premised on the idea of keeping everything very simple to do & convention over configuration..... which is very similar to the Mac philosophy of ease of use. Niels On Dec 4, 2009, at 2:49 PM, eric7...@gmail.com wrote: > the short answer is because they're smart :-). > > You have to remember that OS X is Unix with the best GUI. The Unix platform > is far more mature than the Window core therefore more stable. Also, Unix was > originate by programmers for programmers > > Hope that help. Also, if you'd ever spend some quality time use OS X you'd > never go back to Windows & I used Windows since 3.0 until about 6 months ago. > I'll never run another Windows PC > > > ------Original Message------ > From: Jim Knowlton > To: Ruby on Rails: Talk > ReplyTo: rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com > Subject: [Rails] Why do so many Ruby/Rails developers use Macs? > Sent: Dec 4, 2009 11:33 AM > > I am a QA engineer who works in Ruby quite a bit, and I've never been > able to figure out...why is there a disproportionately large > contingent of Mac users among Ruby developers? Macs are probably 10 > percent of the computer market, but every time I go to a Ruby > conference, probably 80 percent of the laptops there are Macs. > > Any thoughts? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
