[tikhonj]

Well, if Apple's users aren't the sort to dive into a command line, then most developers aren't Apple users.

Also, have you seen any modern, user friendly Linux distros (e.g. Ubunutu)? You never have to dive into the command line there and yet it has nice package management that just works.

[batista]

Well, if Apple's users aren't the sort to dive into a command line, then most developers aren't Apple users.

Well if you have been to any developer's conference, you'd have deduced that most developers are Apple laptop users.

It's just that they don't bitch about any package that breaks.

Some of us also use a virtual machine like Fusion for an isolated environment if we want to do development with a Linux userland, we don't pile one on top of OS X and its' BSD core, and don't expect a volunteer effort like brew with 2000+ packages all sub 20K people use to work perfectly.

(The guy in the other comments said he manages multiple Macs (a sysadmin guy) and had troubles with installing the same packages to all, etc. Presumably also different OS versions. That's a slightly different problem.)

[tikhonj]

The doubtlessly depends on the developer conference in question; I bet an iOS conference and a .NET conference both have different distributions of mac users.

Looking at the recent StackOverflow survey[1] (I think it's fairly representative of developers in general), we see that about 20% of the respondents used Macs, another 20% used Linux and the rest Windows, so mac users emphatically do not represent "most" developers.

[1]: https://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=2RYrV_2bFw2aZ2RfedWH...

But my real point--which I realize was poorly worded--was not that no developers use macs but rather that the ones who do are not "Apple's users" in the sense calloc used.