I currently develop on both laptop (Dell 7480) and home-built PC.
However, I also need access to a Mac of some sort to develop mobile apps that can be deployed to iPhones, iPads etc. A bit of a pain unless I get a Mac...
This is a great point: there are definitely a few development tasks that get super difficult on a particular platform. In my sideline doing weird video glitch art there's lots of obscure Windows software I can't use without a Windows machine, and my understanding is that iOS development is more difficult without a macOS machine.
Of course, I don't think any of these should be a barrier for a programmer in her first year of learning how to code. I know Apple still hopes people will learn Swift as their first language, but I haven't seem much of that in my experience :)
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I currently develop on both laptop (Dell 7480) and home-built PC.
However, I also need access to a Mac of some sort to develop mobile apps that can be deployed to iPhones, iPads etc. A bit of a pain unless I get a Mac...
This is a great point: there are definitely a few development tasks that get super difficult on a particular platform. In my sideline doing weird video glitch art there's lots of obscure Windows software I can't use without a Windows machine, and my understanding is that iOS development is more difficult without a macOS machine.
Of course, I don't think any of these should be a barrier for a programmer in her first year of learning how to code. I know Apple still hopes people will learn Swift as their first language, but I haven't seem much of that in my experience :)