...the guy couldn't compile a mac wallet.. red flaggggggggggg
to some it might as well be a red flagg...gg if he could
...go son, count how many coins (still in existence) came up with a self compiled mac wallet when going online (yup, not a bounty wallet)... you'll be surprised how many red flags you'd have to order...
even if superficially osx and linux (as well as other *nix oses) are, lets say close cousins, because they're both say 'derived' or 'amazingly precise remembered ways of the conceptual implementations that are in the following all re-invented from scratch and not just refurbished kernel code stemming' from unix, they are really a completely other world for a developer if not used to. And it's looks even more impressing to me to get it together propperly under windows. users of linux based os'es hardly ever posts things like 'uhm, how do I by all means get a binary of that stuff??? help, how compile teh stuff!1!!' as it's a common task to compile your binaries so they match and are optimized to your arch. and that is, most of the time (ok, or use a lazy ass bin pkg often available for the more popular softs/archs). I'm not used to coding on mac myself (d'oh objective c... redrum redrum...) and know only one hardcore mac dev in person but comparing the average linux user and the average mac user i'd say the latter are the lazyass bin pkg people knowing as much about compiling as the average windows user. open to be proved wrong.
... so, ok ... osx has quite more in common with linux based os'es than eg. windows but go ahead and try to compile something that's a wee bit more elaborate than 'helloworld.cpp' on both os'es and tell me your experiences... I had mine and that mentioned mac coder I know showed me some amazing pitfalls
There's not much developers around feeling home on linux, mac & windows alike on system level... after a while they know how to get their things done on the none-home systems and there are enough known names among programmers that I wanna see you aproaching with an attitude like 'you're worth a red flag 'cos you cannot compile that stuff on this or that other os in the first place'
that is in no way an excuse for anything else, especially not the all so dreaded where's-waldo-game some dev's tend to play, just to clean up with something like 'cannot compile on mac = all signs on red / bad dev / scam' ... thats obviousy utter bull.