mygosh

I see. I guess the "issues" of developing countries have rapidly improved. Now it's only about MacBooks not getting repaired.

A poor person walks into a jewelry store, buys an expensive shiny diamond. A day later it gets stolen. Poor person goes into an other jewelry store and buys yet another diamond. It breaks lose from its gold ring. Local jewelry store can not repair it. Poor person cries his pain out to the internet.

What about buying stuff that you can actually afford?

I earn quite a lot by most standards and I would not even think about getting a MacBook, unless the company gives me one for free.

It's a luxury item. Period.

Or just use a language that supports large scale refactoring, say Java, C#, perhaps even C++ if you are careful. I generally don't like dynamic languages for large projects exactly because of this. You can't safely and quickly do large scale refactorings, a point that will come back and haunt you sooner or later. No matter how good you are or how much care you take, the code will rot significantly more than in Java/C# because you just can't quickly refactor stuff across the entire codebase, so you won't.