I had a mini-discussion with Neil Stevens about the genesis of my Mac use, sparked by the news that GNOME is moving to JavaScript as its primary development language. I used to be a strict Linux-only user and tended to look down on Macs as mere playthings. I’ll let the Tweets tell the rest of the story.
@presjpolk Plus, it could be worse: GNOME could be going all-Objective C.
— Doug Stewart (@zamoose) February 4, 2013
@presjpolk Funny you should mention Apple alongside GNOME development *cough*Eazel*cough**cough*
— Doug, Doug, Gray Doug (@zamoose) February 4, 2013
@presjpolk Yeah, at that time I was a dedicated Linuxer with no time for Mac, so I didn't even know who Hertzfeld was.
— Doug, Doug, Gray Doug (@zamoose) February 4, 2013
@presjpolk I was actually dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Mac. C-levels in my old company had Macs and felt we in IT weren't…
— Doug, Doug, Gray Doug (@zamoose) February 4, 2013
@presjpolk …being properly supportive, so they said "You have to dogfood this. No more Linux desktops until we're satisfied".
— Doug, Doug, Gray Doug (@zamoose) February 4, 2013
@presjpolk It's been all Linux servers and Mac laptops for me ever since.
— Doug, Doug, Gray Doug (@zamoose) February 4, 2013
@presjpolk It was strange. In retrospect, though, I was rather bigoted, seeing the Mac as a toy for the Comms and Art teams.
— Doug, Doug, Gray Doug (@zamoose) February 4, 2013
@presjpolk (In my defense, that was truer in OS 9 than most Macheads would care to admit. OS X was a turning point.)
— Doug, Doug, Gray Doug (@zamoose) February 4, 2013
