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... Which makes macOS on Apple hardware a great choice for developers who prefer to focus their efforts on their projects instead of their tools.

... Which is not the only valid approach, of course, but it is compelling to many.

... And the counterargument is that having homogeneous dev and deploy environments has great value. And I agree, but I deploy on FreeBSD, Solaris, and Linux; self-hosted, AWS, and colocated. So I have lots of RAM, virtual machines, staging environments, and a strong preference for low levels of dogma.