I have been using Sony VAIO in the past, time to upgrade but I am confused what to get a Mac or windows laptop again? Also any good reviews for Windows 8?
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
What kind of programming? It its not a microsoft language I would suggest going installing linux on the old computer you have so you could get some linux exposure. There are quite a few languages that come standard in a linux box such as Python, Perl, C (run but no compiling), etc.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
Microsoft is going open source. Soon .NET will be available on Linux and Mac too.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
What are your factors ? What kind of programming you are interested in ? If you are more towards full stack programming then the world is already moving towards cloud. Try looking at cloud9, koding.com, nitrous.io etc which provide you vms (1 vm free) and will automate your stack configuration. You will have root access to your linux shell on the cloud (what else you can dream of) and install whatever you want to and access it from any computer whether its linux, mac, windows or solaris (as long as you have internet and new browsers).
If you are focusing on desktop programming or handheld programming then I would suggest going to mac. Reason being that you can program an Android, windows an iPhone on Mac but on windows/linux you can't do iPhone (iOS) programming (well technically, you can but its not an easy path).
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
It is all about Java for me not a linux user really.
I don’t use Microsoft Technologies, tried to do .NET for a month after finishing uni now it’s all about java.
I mostly use Eclipse and I have checked they have different version for MAC users to download it. End of the day getting MAC would be helpful i assume.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
It is all about Java for me not a linux user really.
I don't use Microsoft Technologies, tried to do .NET for a month after finishing uni now it's all about java.
It would be a lot easier to do Java on Linux. That's something that I do everyday at work now. I use eclipse as well.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
It would be a lot easier to do Java on Linux. That's something that I do everyday at work now. I use eclipse as well.
why do you hate Microsoft so much? :(
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
why do you hate Microsoft so much? :(
I dont HATE it. I did microsoft development for the most part of my techie life. I just like open source better.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
I dont HATE it. I did microsoft development for the most part of my techie life. I just like open source better.
hmmmmm... where were you when Microsoft killed it Build 15? everything blown to the sky.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
why do you hate Microsoft so much? :(
Hate is a strong word. Tad overvalued, don't you think?
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
hmmmmm... where were you when Microsoft killed it Build 15? everything blown to the sky.
what's that?
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
Now that Hunt is famous he can afford to ignore people
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
I will check it out. Thanks man!!
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
Would give a try to linux.
Interesting read
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
I will check it out. Thanks man!!
Would give a try to linux. Interesting read
you guys didn't knew about this? how is that even possible.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
Now that Hunt is famous he can afford to ignore people
nothing like that prah ji
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
you guys didn't knew about this? how is that even possible.
I havent done any microsoft development for the past 3 years.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
@Lilly - I would suggest you should try cloud9 for a while. Given that you want to get taste of linux development, there you will find all the ingredients that you need without making a decision of what computer to buy.
Cloud9 provides mysql db and the command prompt. You can install maven (I guess it comes pre-installed but you can check with **which maven **command).
Use maven to build your projects and manage your dependencies. You can install tomcat via apt-get and i guess you will be good to go ...
One thing I should tell you that Cloud9 doesn't have any pre-built java stack, so you might have to struggle a bit.
Re: Mac vs PC for Programming
When it comes to building the products and manage dependencies I love ant-ivy. Thats what we use with our java products along with Artifactory and Jenkins.