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I use a mac for developing, and don't use it as a sort of terminal tool, I develop _on_ the mac. I install whatever I need there. MacOS is a kind of unix, and `brew` usually gives me whatever I need. But I don't do things that my local macbook doesn't have the CPU power for. Then I deploy to a staging server, and ultimately to production, using automated deploy tools. I never edit things directly on the production or staging server. The staging/production servers are always some kind of linux, I don't really care if they are VMs or whatever. On my current project, they are all AWS resources. Jonathan On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I’m just curious. What sorts of computing environments do y’all > use/exploit? > > For a long long time I used my Macintosh as a sort of terminal tool > connected to a Unix/Linux computer where I did my “real” computing. > Now-a-days, I still use this set up, but the Unix/Linux environment is > increasingly a virtual machine, a “large” multi-core computer, or a > “cluster”. More specifically, I have learned to increase my throughput with > parallel processing and/or cluster computing. This is advantageous because > I do dozens of processes against 10’s of thousands plain text files, and > doing such work on against a single CPU is not feasible. Map/reduce is a > good thing! Because of parallel processing a cluster computing, I have had > to change some of my programming paradigms. The whole thing is very > interesting. > > What sorts of environments do y’all use? > > — > Eric Lease Morgan > University of Notre Dame >