Favorite tech stack?

Nah, that's too boring.

What is better, Windows, macOS or Linux?

I like flame wars what can I say? :P

TempleOS

but that would be a pretty old and boring flame war :P

@thoxx But it's eternal. Like the fights over religion. :P

Unoriginal answer, but it depends.

Because of Microsoft's wonderfully aggressive and illegal business tactics in the 90s, they still dominate the PC market decades later. This means driver/API support for Windows (via DX) is vastly superior to other operating systems.

So Windows almost always wins for gaming. Not because DX is good, but because it's widespread. Look up DotA 2 Windows vs Ubuntu.

You actually get better performance in Ubuntu via Vulkan. A very new game API with not a lot of time to optimize. Hopefully DX dies quickly.

macOS wins for everyday usability. Spotlight indexes better and faster than Windows, and without you ever having to worry about what it indexes.
It's multidesktop interface is refined a tad more than Windows and gnome.

Battery life is generally far better because of the vertical integration.
Applications are managed way better (single packages in a single folder vs. 32 vs 64 bit distinctions etc.)

Can't go on, ran out of characters. So much more tho.

All that being said, I prefer Linux. I use all 3 OSes but I love how open Linux is to customization. Pop OS is my daily driver.

It's free, where macOS has a large premium on price.

Gonna ignore the second part, lately ive grown to like python flask and vuejs for personal projects and ocaml for embedded and desktop software

@sharktits It's all in good fun. I don't think they'll take the latter seriously.

Right now I'm married to Spring Boot/Hibernate with Maven, no more .xml configurations thank god. So many fewer errors and so many less configuration issues. Now I just have to figure out how to get this stack hosted on my LAMP stack as a WAR file and I'm solid.

For home projects....jeez, I dunno yet? I know I want Node.JS as a back end but I'm not sure if I want to build the project in Python with AngularJS or something else....

@starrynights89 eeeehhhhh i prefer spark over spring boot, but thats just probably me. Doesnt sb have an embedded jetty server? I use one for a ~100 hit/day site, the load doesnt even fluctuate.

@sharktits I prefer Javalin over spark. I made that progression tho (spring -> spark -> javalin).

@Nevoic last time i checked (more than a year ago) javalin was literally the same as spark, does it have any advantage now?

@sharktits You can add it as an option yes. I moved to sb after JavaEE made me want to jump off a fucking cliff. Even Oracle doesn't want anything to do with it.

My end goal with a framework is easy configurations with clean, readable code and sb fits the need for me pretty well. But Spark looks interesting. Might demo it...

@Nevoic yeah i just checked, seems they made a lot of improvements, will try it in a project

@starrynights89 yeah, even i think jee is garbage and im a huge java fan. I like spark because its small and only abstracts away the necessary stuff (i fucking hate when a fw abstracts sql), maybe youll like it too.

@LeFlawk Free BSD, Net BSD, or something else?

I'm comfortable with Arch so I don't see a big reason to go to BSD

@NoMad I could go for some pizza tonight.