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by ImaCake 1990 days ago
>was relevant in 2006, when the novelty of OS X was that it was a UNIX that you could actually use as a daily driver. This is what initially got developers to move to Mac. But it's been fifteen years

My anecdata for this is that I bought a MacBook in 2020 for precisely this reason. I am not a programmer, mostly my use case is bioinformatics and processing large datasets. Native terminal is better than WSL (although WSL is good now) and macOS is much more reliable than linux ever has been for me.