Buff Doge showdown: Visual Studio cross-platform love vs Xcode Mac lock-in

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The meme uses the classic buff-versus-sad Doge split. Left panel: a heavily muscled Doge labeled "Microsoft" stands proudly beside the purple Visual Studio logo; caption reads "We make a special version of our software for competing platforms." Right panel: a teary, slumped Doge labeled "Apple" sits next to the blue Xcode icon with hammer; caption reads "You need a mac to use our stuff." The contrasting dog images emphasize Microsoft’s cross-platform support (Visual Studio for Windows, Mac, and Linux) against Apple’s walled-garden requirement of macOS for Xcode and iOS builds. Visually the background is plain white, black sans-serif text tops each panel, and the tool icons are centered below the dogs, making the platform-lock-in joke clear to developers familiar with IDE ecosystems

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VendorLockIn CrossPlatformDevelopment DeveloperHumor MicrosoftProducts AppleEcosystem IDEsAndTextEditors VisualStudioIDE ToolingFrustration

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Microsoft lets us docker-compose an entire toolchain; Apple’s scaling strategy is just “add another Mac mini to the rack and pray the next Xcode update doesn’t brick SSH.”

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Microsoft lets us docker-compose an entire toolchain; Apple’s scaling strategy is just “add another Mac mini to the rack and pray the next Xcode update doesn’t brick SSH.”
Anonymous

The real power move is when you're running Visual Studio Code on your MacBook Pro to develop a .NET Core app that you'll deploy to Linux containers on Azure, while your iOS app CI/CD pipeline requires a Mac mini farm that costs more than your entire Kubernetes cluster
Anonymous

The irony here cuts deep: Microsoft, once the poster child for proprietary lock-in, now ships VS Code to every platform including their competitors', while Apple - champion of 'think different' - insists you think exactly like them by buying a $2000+ Mac just to compile Swift. It's the ultimate role reversal where the former monopolist embraced open tooling and the design-forward innovator gatekeeps their entire development ecosystem behind hardware purchases. Senior engineers remember when this was flipped, making the meme's 'buff vs weak' comparison a delicious commentary on how corporate strategies evolve - or devolve - over decades
Anonymous

Microsoft ships their IDE to every OS; Apple turns your CI into a Mac mini shrine because Xcode won’t containerize and codesigning needs the blessing of Cupertino
Anonymous

Microsoft ports the IDE; Apple ports your budget to a Mac‑mini farm that only runs xcodebuild, codesign, and notarize
Anonymous

.NET Core: Write once, debug everywhere. Xcode: Buy Mac, pray it compiles
@RiedleroD 4y

right, what bullshit is this then?
1. @RiedleroD 4y
  
  ever heard of office for linux? I sure haven't
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y
  
  Ever heard about youtube for windows phone?
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  some version have youtube, the others have offbrand clients
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  you need WP8.0 for official yt iirc
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y
  
  Lol no there was bever an official google youtube. There was one that was made by Microsoft but the google sued for not serving ads and video downloads loool. If you manage to download the youtube app now it just closes itself and launches www.youtube.com
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  what? bruhhh
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y
  
  Yes
  
  Kademlia 4y
  
  They discontinued Monodevelop, the IDE close enough to Visual Studio for Linux
  
  @QutePoet 4y
  
  You can use LibreOffice, it's really good office package. Don't forget to enlarge pics cache in LIbrerOfficd options before using or you will encounter extreme lags when scrolling a document with one or more pictures inside.
  
  Deleted Account 4y
  
  Excel, word etc still better
  
  @QutePoet 4y
  
  It depends on the hardness of your task and the way of following productivity ideology of your boss.
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  let's just say that my classmates swear much more when using MSOffice than I do when I'm using libreoffice
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  both are utter trash, but this is true across all text processors
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  yes.
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  the only slightly not sad processor is latex, but you will be cursed if you touch it
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  and i am cursed
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  same
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  latex is really neat and hell at the same time
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  latex is actually cursed ancient alien technology, which no one could replicate since the 70s, the beginning of time
  
  Kademlia 4y
  
  LibreOffice is a Word processor. What I'm referring here with Monodevelop is an IDE used for software development, in this case using Microsoft software. Now that Microsoft discontinued this IDE, it's now more cumbersome to develop on Microsoft's platform from Linux.
  
  @doodguy1991 4y
  
  Cloud version exists at least. They don't stop you from using WINE either
  
  Kademlia 4y
  
  Not everyone has good enough internet or funds for an annual cloud subscription, while the hardware is already capable to run it and wine doesn't work good for modern Windows programs
  
  @doodguy1991 4y
  
  Yeah I know, I actually dislike cloud most of the time. That's why in the message after I said I don't recommend it
  
  @BotMike 4y
  
  LibreOffice
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  I meant ms office specifically
  
  @BotMike 4y
  
  There is a Mac version, and it's kind of OK. Why should they bother about Linux? It's a dead thing, used only by servers and embedded stuff. You don't need office there. Chrome OS? Not popular enough. For Android, there is an app from MS to open and edit text in .docx files. Adobe also don't care about Linux, btw.
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  oh my how wrong you are omg
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  this is a certified funni
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  Well Linux is what, 3% of desktop, why'd you make and maintain linux version of your software
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  i'm thinking, are there lots of people that are staying on windows because there are no adobe software on linux?
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  i know several people who only have windows because adobe
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  At the end of the day: what is Linux?
  
  @feskow 4y
  
  I mean any linux-based desktop os
  
  @feedable 4y
  
  well, it was 1% 1yr ago, go figure
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  There’s a lot of installations in gov/bus envs. This is pretty hard to calculate properly
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@Roman_Millen 4y

JetBrains IDEs fully operational on all platforms be like:
1. @misesOnWheels 4y
  
  Jetbrains don't sell OS and hardware
2. @yehorror 4y
  
  I wish one of them (CLion) was not so slow at medium sized projects. I faced unprecedented memory consumption and low responsiveness when added two files with ~1k lines of code to my project
  
  dev_meme 4y
  
  Did you wait for indexing to be finished?
  
  @yehorror 4y
  
  Sure
3. dev_meme 4y
  
  Yes, but IDEs are not compilers, much different thing
@Nex8192 4y

Microsoft doing less powerful version for competing systems
@yehorror 4y

I wish visual studio (not vs code) was released for Linux
1. Deleted Account 4y
  
  Yes that will be cool, but what's the problem just use Virtual Machine or Dualboot?
2. @BotMike 4y
  
  Install Win11 and use it with WSL, lmao
@atom_ix 4y

Ever heard about Picture in Picture for Premium YouTube on iPhone ?
1. @RiedleroD 4y
  
  same on android, but we can easily sideload youtube vanced, for example.
  
  @farkasma 4y
  
  except Vanced is dead and so am I inside
  
  @RiedleroD 4y
  
  vanced is dead when it stops working. For now, development on vanced is dead. But I'll use newpipe before using the official crapp
  
  @kandiesky 4y
  
  Nope. https://github.com/revanced
  
  @farkasma 4y
  
  ooooh, now that is exciting
@kandiesky 4y

Apple is the worst. Can't even develop for this shitty plataform without expending way too much money that it isn't worth it anymore. That and the constant breaking changes just for fun
1. @poniraq 4y
  
  also let's not forget that apple has literally THE worst documentation
@Comanshark 4y

But not in GNU/Linux. 🙄
Kademlia 4y

At this rate, Apple might catch up with Swift support on Linux
@BotMike 4y

AFAIK, VS for macOS supports only .NET development
1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y
  
  Lol what? Its an IDE you can link any compiler to it if you know how it works
  
  @BotMike 4y
  
  Have you ever used it? I have no idea how to install stuff manually to VS. It's all packed into .vsix magic box or provided by VS Installer. Also, I don't think that Microsoft will ever port Windows-native tools to Mac. Furthermore, VS for Mac is not actually a "VS". It is a modified and rebranded Xamarin Studio for Mac. Btw, you can always check the info on its webpage: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y
  
  Loool so its more like a phone app? 😂😂😂💀
  
  @BotMike 4y
  
  Well, I haven't used it. According to MS, people can do all (or almost all) .NET stuff there. Personally, I use CMake, so it all means nothing to me. I write code in my Visual Studio on Windows, and then just test stuff on Mac. If I need to do some debugging or Metal magic, then XCode is enough.
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 4y
  
  I see

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