For the past couple years I've developed on macOS, and the few years before that in a different role, on windows. On both machines I ended up resorting to a Linux VM to avoid frustrating differences between my dev environment and my prod environment.
Windows was totally off, macOS nearly just worked but every now and then an update would kill my dev environment and I would have to spend a day fixing it.
WSL1 was totally insufficient, and a few months ago I would say that I strongly prefer macOS to windows. Having toyed with WSL2, however, the speed and seamlessness has impressed me. I haven't tried it for full time work, but I'm getting the impression that it's superior to my current workflows with Parallels on macOS.
That said I'd just prefer a high quality full-Linux-dev environment. Going to just lobby for a Thinkpad instead of a MacBook on my coming machine refresh.
I am now doing the opposite: When I need to dev for Windows or something (usually for a contract), I spin a Win10 VM on QEMU-KVM.
If you guys have been virtualizing on VMWare or Virtualbox, try KVM. It's blistering fast and the whole SPICE protocol is amazing. You can actually get a usable, snappy 2+ desktop with dynamic resizing, audio redirection and USB redirection (which is SO good i was able to test using a USB soundcard and I got sound to play without underruns! quite a feat)
Windows was totally off, macOS nearly just worked but every now and then an update would kill my dev environment and I would have to spend a day fixing it.
WSL1 was totally insufficient, and a few months ago I would say that I strongly prefer macOS to windows. Having toyed with WSL2, however, the speed and seamlessness has impressed me. I haven't tried it for full time work, but I'm getting the impression that it's superior to my current workflows with Parallels on macOS.
That said I'd just prefer a high quality full-Linux-dev environment. Going to just lobby for a Thinkpad instead of a MacBook on my coming machine refresh.