At work, since I work in .Net-land, I do most if not all of my dev work on a Windows box. Consequently, I would do a lot of my for-fun stuff also on a Windows box. A few years ago I got a MacBook Pro because every Windows laptop I got was built like crap and would get destroyed very quickly when I traveled – I went through like 4 laptops in a 2 year period. The only laptop I’d ever used that was physically durable enough while also not weighing a ton was an aluminum MacBook, so I got one of those.

I never really did much dev work on it, though – it was a solid machine for travel, some games (yay Steam). I maybe noodled around a little doing some front-end experimentation and a little bit of Python, but nothing more than toy projects.

With Hoshi, I’ve decided to start using my Mac for the development, since it’ll all be in Angular and Python + Flask. I’m using VS Code for my editor, since it’s a really nice editor.  Some of the *nix stuff I’ve been learning while setting up my Pis has been helpful, though things like Brew vs. apt-get and some of the other OS X related stuff is a bit annoying.

So far it’s been very nice – even though I’m still figuring out the workflow and fumbling around looking for commands, I’m finding it a pretty decent tool. I have Parallels with a copy of Windows 10 on it, so that’s also been good – I can mix and match bits and pieces in the pipeline.