I have had the same discussion with my team mates who use ubuntu. Me being a front end dev and needing graphic tools, means i have to use mac. But to get the ENV up an running it took a while. However, now the environment is exactly the same. When they do apt-get I do brew install. I really miss your point regarding "ability to solve problems effectively" .
If you are proficient with a mac, and you can achieve the same tasks more quickly, then setting it up is the least of your problems.
I agree with what you said regarding windows, as getting the tools up to date there is a nightmare, but OSX is really up there, and works fine. No real reason to run everything in a VM and waste memory
The problem I have with this is that you're not developing against the target environment - you're developing against the closest thing you can make to your target environment, given your utilities.
The problems that I've run into in the past are typically subtle, but they're almost always show stoppers (either on the development side or the production side).
That said, my current environment is on a mac while my production is on EL6, but my next one will not be. The up front cost to get a DB and nginx running properly is just not worth the effort to do again.
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I have had the same discussion with my team mates who use ubuntu. Me being a front end dev and needing graphic tools, means i have to use mac. But to get the ENV up an running it took a while. However, now the environment is exactly the same. When they do apt-get I do brew install. I really miss your point regarding "ability to solve problems effectively" . If you are proficient with a mac, and you can achieve the same tasks more quickly, then setting it up is the least of your problems. I agree with what you said regarding windows, as getting the tools up to date there is a nightmare, but OSX is really up there, and works fine. No real reason to run everything in a VM and waste memory
The problem I have with this is that you're not developing against the target environment - you're developing against the closest thing you can make to your target environment, given your utilities.
The problems that I've run into in the past are typically subtle, but they're almost always show stoppers (either on the development side or the production side).
That said, my current environment is on a mac while my production is on EL6, but my next one will not be. The up front cost to get a DB and nginx running properly is just not worth the effort to do again.