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wubrr on Nov 3, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: M3 Macs: there's more to performance than counting...

> The old version continues to work as well as it always did; scripts written for the new version don't work,

Right, so scripts written for bash4+ don't work - which is most of modern bash scripts..

> but why would you write a bash4 script for macOs?

The problem is that you have to write special scripts (among other things) just for macos. This is very real problem because most modern software companies run their stuff on linux, while the dev laptops/workstations are often macos.

toast0 on Nov 4, 2023 [–]

If you want your server environment to match your desktop environment, macOs is a poor choice.

It would be better to have a dev vm or use an os that you can run a real server on. FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, maybe Solaris.

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