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by pjmlp 2529 days ago
The large majority of devs that buy Macs aren't UNIX FOSS devs, rather devs that care about Apple platform.
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rleigh 2529 days ago
My experience has been the opposite. Of all the people I've worked with using Macs, all of them were developing cross-platform open source software. I've yet to meet a single developer making MacOS applications.
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pjmlp 2528 days ago
They would better off sponsoring OEMs that try to keep BSDs and GNU/Linux hardware alive then.

On my Mac circle it is all about store apps and Web apps (Java/.NET Core based).

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julvo 2529 days ago
This doesn't match my experience so far, could you point me to your sources for this claim?
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pjmlp 2529 days ago
Just like you, my experience so far.

Then again, I only hang around with Mac devs that target iDevices and macOS, using Objective-C, Swift, C++ and Web.

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