Why "Download Firefox Nightly for macOS"?
Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?
Is it not supported on Linux and Windows? Why?
From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
From: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/We...
> Currently only macOS is supported.
As for why - no idea.
So, while it might be far less in the general market share, and even web dev share, it's more in the "kind of developer that goes to conferences/presets/etc" share...
These are not just web developers though, they're full stack developers; perhaps pure frontend developers are more prone to use Apple products?
At least far more than Apple's general market share.
Even most designers I know personally don't use macOS. But if I was going by what I see at JS conferences, you'd think Apple has a 99% marketshare (although things have improved in recent years with "full stack" bringing in Linux folks and Microsoft's investment in dev tools making Windows more appealing).
This is similar to how everyone at these conferences seems to have one of the latest iPhones yet (depending on where you live) the majority of smartphone users uses Androids and those who are using iPhones generally hold onto them for years before upgrading.
Also FWIW as a long time JS dev, it seemed to me like Rails actually was one of the major contributors to the macbook monoculture because Rails (in the early days) was popular with startups who also often focused on iOS apps first, which means they had no other choice than to use macOS for development. As iOS became less of a focus than web dev, the macbooks stayed and only now seem to be slowly replaced as Microsoft is making a heavy push into web dev relations and the opinion of Apple's quality gets tarnished by dev-unfriendly decisions and hardware problems.
Yes, but they're also more influential in the respective communities, and more probable as presenters to be writing stuff others use (e.g. this Firefox dev tool).
So they'll use what they personally use to develop.
>Also FWIW as a long time JS dev, it seemed to me like Rails actually was one of the major contributors to the macbook monoculture because Rails (in the early days) was popular with startups who also often focused on iOS apps first, which means they had no other choice than to use macOS for development.
I don't think that's the case - Rails confs/devs was mostly Macs before iOS apps where a thing (which happened 4-5 years after RoR was released).
But this may be a regional thing (so selection bias again). When I was freelancing as a Python web dev, the few places that used Python usually used Plone/Zope (barely anyone used Django or Flask) and there were even fewer places using Ruby except startups. The popularity of Plone/Zope seems to be very much a German thing, just like SuSE Linux and Typo3/Drupal (instead of Wordpress). We've even had a very large Firefox marketshare until fairly recently (because of privacy concerns over Google Chrome).
That said, in European JS conferences over the past five years I'm definitely seeing more and more non-macbooks each year.
Windows 47.5%
MacOS 26.8%
Linux-based 25.6%
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Total non-Macs: 73.1%And and in this case web should be read as 'front-end'.
I always felt that the price/quality ratio was way off with MacOS, compared to a good regular laptop. By good I mean top 10% ranked by price/quality. Even if it wasn't, Apple's general hostility towards consumers is infuriating. Right-to-repair is a banal example.
Yes, and seemingly in the web backend crowd too (Ruby, PHP, Python but not as much AFAICT).
If you go to a web conference and don't pull out a Mac, you do get comments and/or questions (depending if you're running Windows or Linux).
At Python conferences I've seen fewer Macs and more of the good old ThinkPads running Linux. My feeling is that community has a more "Computer sciencey" taste in laptops, because they're not all web programmers.
Or maybe just because they _can_ be bothered to spend a few days setting up their laptop just right and actively maintain it.
I'm a fairly advanced user but I can't be bothered to do so on a laptop and would rather have a Mac to carry around and GNU/Linux on my desktop.
It gives you a well rounded OS with a Unix terminal. I think MacOS is more consistent than Windows or Linux with a better attention to details (though I haven't used Linux for almost a decade so things might have changed a bit) which make it more pleasant to use.
Also, the previous generation of Macbook Pros was just really good, sturdy hardware. Hopefully the new update will fix the flaws of the new design.
Lastly, a lot of people get laptops from their company, and companies don't mind a one time extra cost of a few hundred dollars.
I'm currently writing this from a Dell laptop, and I have to say, while the hardware has caught up with the Macbooks in terms of build quality, I still miss MacOS.
I have started using a Chromebook with 8G of memory and like it much more ... but I am probably in the minority. :(
Once you're price-insensitive, the quality looks good for macs, keyboard issues notwithstanding.
Unfortunately, Replay hooks into low-level OS system calls to do the recording, which makes it non-trivial to support other platforms.
EDIT: sibling comment cleared things up, so mine is irrelevant