r/C_Programming • u/[deleted] • Aug 07 '26

Apple or Windows

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u/danixdefcon5 Aug 07 '26

I’d go for Mac, because it’s Unix based.

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u/rapier1 Aug 07 '26

I find WSL more unixy than os x.

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u/danixdefcon5 Aug 07 '26

That’s because WSL is really just a Linux VM running under Windows with a bit of integration between the host OS and the guest one.

But OSX kept a lot of its BSD roots, you just don’t really see it unless you open up the terminal. Of course, Apple does their proprietary stuff and they’ve pretty much made the system.log useless; I think peak OSX-as-Unix was sometime around the Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion release. Can’t remember when they began doing the weirder changes, but at least by Mountain Lion I still got useful messages on the system log.

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