On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Jim Knowlton <jknowlton...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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?
>
>
Jim, here are my reasons for selecting a Mac:
o the OS is built on very stable technologies like Unix
o the graphical user interface is great for delivering a better user
experience
o open source friendly
o can use both off the shelf and open source software
o in regards to the web, a better mirror to the platform I'm deploying to
i.e. most deployed web sites are running on Unix based systems
o most of the companies I have worked for were Unix based environments
o a very nice and free development environment in Xcode for building
desktop, iPhone, and MacRuby applications
o extensibility
e.g. I can run Windows 7 Ultimate, Linux, other OS compatible
applications side by side with Mac OS applications using VMWare Fusion.
I tend use a very nice tool called Rational Performance Tester on
Linux for simulating user load on a web site. BTW, Rational Performance
Tester is only supported on the Window and Linux platforms.
o the company, Apple, cares more about winning the quality battle than the
majority battle
In short, it's about working in an environment that you enjoy which provides
the options to expand.
Just my 2 cents,
-Conrad
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