How does a developer prepare to migrate to an OSX machine?

Question

macOS

Hello kitties. The question is simple, I have been sitting on Windows and Nix systems all my adult life, and now I suddenly realized that in a couple of days I will have a poppy and I don’t quite understand a few things:
a) What is the workflow on a poppy for web developers? Who sets up their environment?
b) What is the exclusive software for both development and everyday life.
c) Who uses what for task-tracking, mail, ICQ-Skype-jabbers? What's better?
Where can you find answers to these questions?

Answer 1

Personally, I need a number of utilities that are not available on os x. Like pwgen, markdown... mc after all. For this you need GNU utilities. Therefore, first you need to install homebrew (well, or macports, to taste). They need xcode or xcode command line tool.
Another console. The standard one in os x is IMHO so terrible that it is only suitable for copy-pasting from the Internet the command to install homebrew. And I do not recommend it. For example iterm2.
After that, it can already be used almost like a normal Unix ... Well, until you need Java or, for example, an XWindow substitute. There you might be in for some surprises :)
More. The Apple Mail email client is impossible to use for my taste. Therefore I eat a cactus: I use Thunderbird.

Answer 2

If you sat on nixas, then there will be no difficulty in mastering.
For sure, what you have already used will work on a poppy - PhpStorm, VirtualBox, Sublime Text, etc.
Skype is, where without it. Task trackers are all on the web (Atlassian and others), so the platform is not critical. You can download SourceTree from the same Bitbucket.
There is a lot of information on the internet about this...

Answer 3

About exclusive software. When I had a macbook, I actively used Coda for layout (now I'm doing more complex tasks and I no longer need that software). That is, there is no super duper software there (well, maybe Sequel Pro is still there, although nothing like that).
Exclusive is not exclusive - you can always dig up analogues under Win, but under poppy it's not so easy.
In general, there is almost everything for Macintosh developers (well, unless you are a fan of Visual Studio, of course). Think for yourself - many large active companies often give the choice of Mac or PC.

Answer 4

There is everything for a web developer on a poppy.
you can set it all up like this www.asakasinsky.ru/2012/11/11/podghotovka-rabochie...
for development I recommend intelliJ IDEA or its derivatives IDE

Answer 5

I would strongly recommend you not to "litter" the poppy with a web server and database.
Choose and set up your virtual machines on a familiar *nix distribution.
And use the Mac itself as a "client" on which the development environment, editors and other interface programs are installed.

Answer 6

I strongly advise you to install the Quicksilver software. And the rest - to taste. There is a lot of software for development, various IDEs, editors, utilities, etc.
Also, most likely, you will need to install XCode Developer Tools (it includes various commonly used utilities) and MacPorts (something like a package manager with some software that is not in the AppStore or in the form of normal osx dmg packages).

Answer 7

There is a parallels desktop
What will be missing just run from under Windows