Sporiff 📧

Real programmers don't use Linux. Or *BSD for that matter. Real programmers have seen into the heart of computers and they know that there is nothing good to be found.

Real programmers have run to the woods. They hide in fearful certainty, waiting with dread for what must come.

That or macOS. Depends on the project.

Jan 12, 2023 at 8:03pmWeb
Show threadMaxi 12x 💉Jan 12, 2023
@cda Not macOS! /o\
Show threadOverSoftJan 12, 2023
@cda I use all of them, but my main driver is a Mac. It just works. And it has a pretty good terminal.
Show threadSporiff 📧Jan 12, 2023
@OverSoft I'll see you in the woods one day. It's coming. You know it's coming.
Show threadThomas H Jones IIMar 8, 2023

@OverSoft @cda

My company felt similarly ...until a couple customers decided to ditch their VPNs in favor of mediating access to their environments with Smartcard-enabled AVDs. Then the company-issued Macs became a pain point (at least until you add a virtualization service to run a passthrough enabled Windows VM on it ...which didn't work so well with the recently purchased M1s).

Show threadMaxi 12x 💉Jan 12, 2023
@daniel_bohrer ^^
Show threadscarlettMar 7, 2023

@cda

They hide in fearful certainty, waiting with dread for what must comeOh, so Windows Embedded CE. got it.

Show threadgettie ( arc)     Mar 7, 2023
@cda
>Real programmers don't use Linux. Or *BSD
>macOS

MacOS is actually based on BSD, so you still use a Unix-like system nonetheless. I have tried macOS before, as I hackintoshed my laptop for a while not too long ago. I get that the tools on macOS work well enough if you are used to Apple's ecosystem. Not gonna lie, even using Xcode wasn't that bad.

But I agree with the statement that real programmers have run to the woods.
Show threadHarshad SharmaMar 7, 2023
@cda you may have finally cured my impostor syndrome! This post is coming from the woods, typed on a… mac 🙈
Show threadapgarciaMar 7, 2023

@cda

He went away from the basement of Building 14 that day, and left this note in his cubicle, on top of his computer terminal: "I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season."

-Tracy Kidder, "Soul of a New Machine"

Show threadDec [{()}]Mar 11, 2023
@apgarcia @cda
I came here to post this quote.
Show threadTröglödÿtMar 7, 2023

@cda lies

real programmers use their own forth on the bare metal

Show threadDROP\ TABLE Hacker of EarthseaMar 7, 2023
@cda microsoft
Show threadJosef 'Jeff' SipekMar 7, 2023

@cda Words cannot describe the horrors I’ve seen…

—
Sent from my iPhone.

Show threadAvi 🦝Mar 7, 2023
@cda As someone who was switching between Windows and Linux… I hate this but it's true.
Show threadBart DorseyMar 8, 2023
@cda @flargh I love how windows isn’t even worth mentioning.
Show threadJoshua Doll 🤷‍♂️Mar 8, 2023
@cda so bsd? 😜
Show threadLeonMar 8, 2023
@cda never macos
Show threadJoanna Bryson, blatheringMar 8, 2023
@cda @tedpavlic But we DID use linux before apple switched to osx.
Show threadBill WoodcockMar 8, 2023
@j2bryson @cda @tedpavlic I thought we used SunOS before Apple switched to OSX.
Show threadJoanna Bryson, blatheringMar 8, 2023

@woody @cda @tedpavlic which was basically BSD yeah I used that at work and Edinburgh's Department of AI, but their pszch department couldn't afford suns so it was linux. also on my first laptop.

Before Sun it was actual BSD on a convex and some other machine U Chicago bought, before they bought that it was tops20

Show threadPeterD 🇩🇪 🇨🇦Mar 8, 2023
@cda Pl/1 IBM Mainframes is where it is at. And then there is RPG. Oh - I forgot JCL. I used to go sailing - Lake Ontario or Georgian Bay.
Show thread💀 𝓕airchild 💀Mar 10, 2023
@cda A programmer I work with recently said to me "We have made a grave mistake inventing computers."
She's not wrong.
Show threadDec [{()}]Mar 11, 2023
@cda
https://www.haiku-os.org/
Haiku Project

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