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Originally posted by Adonis
I didn't say or imply I don't care about crossbrowser compatibility. I don't know where you got that. You are making up stuff. I even presented you with facts and figures. I simply stated that IE is crap when compared to Safari, Chrome, and FF in terms of standards support and performance. That's just the facts about the performance and standards compliance of IE. Spartan is still IE underneath. It's the same js engine and rendering engine with a new name.
Secondly, I understand that there is another half of the world. Many of those developers don't even use a mac they use a *nix environment. They are not using windows. I've been in the development world for twice as long as you have. I am telling you what I know about. Even companies like Google, are mandating employees use a mac unless they can make a business case for using something else. You can partition your mac/*nix box to use windows. It's harder to do the opposite. It's also harder to mimic the environment your code will live on a Windows machine. Most software these days is written for the web and for apps which is shorthand applications.
http://bgr.com/2013/11/28/mac-chrome...gle-employees/
Browser Performance: http://www.cnet.com/news/safari-8-br...r-speed-boost/
HTML5 Compliance: https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html
IE not going completely away: http://www.cnet.com/au/news/microsof...th-windows-10/
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And still the majority don't
use *nix environments to develop. They
develop for Linux environments because Linux builds are the most common server operating systems with about 40% to 80% of the server space share. This is because LAMP is open source, and free. Whereas the alternative's, like Windows Server, costs thousands of dollars a year at enterprise. Most developers write code that runs on Linux, but most developers develop on Windows, most businesses use Windows, and most people in the world still use Windows. Believing that Mac has taken over the world of Software Engineering is fantasy, but it has taken a very large chunk because of the app store.
Most companies are not Google or other hipster progressive American tech giants out of Silicon Valley that can even afford Macs. Google and other highly profitable tech companies are not representative of the current state of our industry. I've only developed professionally at the enterprise level for 7 years, since a little before I graduated. But I've been coding a lot longer than that.