

Lima is built on qemu, which is always a solid choice for virtualization. It’s only a couple of commands to get up and running with their docker example. The favorite replacement that I have found for docker desktop is to run docker-ce in lima vm. I run Linux, so I don't have firsthand experience with much of this, but everyone I know who uses macOS for development has something like Homebrew installed, so they can get up-to-date versions of the various tools that are outdated in the default macOS install.

The version available to Mac is 17 years old and lacking some useful flags It seems to me that most "tech companies" prefer Macs. I would expect the Stack Overflow survey is skewed pretty hard toward Windows due to big corporate enterprises that aren't tech companies. This might be a Silicon Valley startup thing. These days our IT department offers Windows machines for employees who need it for some reason, but uptake is likely in the single-digit percentages.Īnd I know a lot of people who do technical work at various companies whose primary work machine is a MacBook Pro. This was driven by our three founders, who, at the time, were all engineers. Despite not developing Mac applications, we've (Twilio) been a Mac shop since day one, 14 years ago.

Tech work isn't designed to be compatible with a mac. macOS is mainly targeted at secretaries, managers and artists.
