are macbooks viable for coding?

Question

i have just started learning and i already have a macbook air. would other laptops that run windows and things related be better?

Answer 1

You are fine with the Mac while learning. When creating programs for a different target system you may find options such as emulators, virtual machines or cross-compilers will generally work fine. Many scripting languages try to be OS independent so that isn't a big issue. Ultimately depends on language and project type.

For now just get comfortable with programming in general, it's all the same in the beginning.

Answer 2

Yes, you can use any major operating systems. You basically need a mac if you want to develop for iOS (natively).