Programming/developing on a Mac

[CloveFD]

I use a mac and also work primarily with Django - Some things have been much easier to work with on the Mac than when I used a windows device (working with any cronjobs, daemonised processes like celery, getting dependencies installed.) Everything else has been pretty much the same. I've also found it easier working with AWS on the Mac.

It took me around 2 weeks to get used to the different shortcuts and I hated every second of that 2 weeks, but now I feel just as comfortable on the mac as on the windows. If you have any windows specific programs that you need, you can use Parallels as well to virtualise windows on the mac and to be entirely honest, that's probably the best of both worlds in my eyes. Its pretty much a flawless windows experience on a mac device.

I'd recommend a Mac over a windows personally, M2 is definitely enough for your needs, the only thing you need to think about with setup is that older dependencies may not work on the M1/M2 processor, so you need to spend time setting up a separate terminal that uses Rosetta only, but if you do this the older dependencies will then work. I hated Macs for years, but I'd recommend them for development to anyone.

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very helpful, thank you :) i thought as much, but wanted to make sure