

As a Mac user, and as a Web developer, I was so thrilled when Apple made the big switch in 2001 to Mac OS X, which is by far the most user-friendly version of Unix (Mac OS X uses a version of FreeBSD as its core). This was a few years before I begin my life as a programmer and Web developer.

My first Mac computer was purchased in 1994, a Color Classic.
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I’ve been using Apple computers for thirty years now: I first learned how to program with Basic on an Apple IIe. Let’s look at the history and the options here to understand why it may be time for a switch. But I think it’s now time to start doing MAMP-Mac OS X, Apache, MySQL, and PHP-without MAMP, the application. MAMP Pro is just a better interface to the MAMP stack, in particular providing an easy way to establish virtual hosts, which I use extensively (i.e., I create a new virtual host for each client or personal project).

Although MAMP itself is free, in time I went ahead and purchased MAMP Pro. This also means that changes to the built-in Apache (via Mac OS X software updates) don’t impact your setup, as can happen if you modify and configure how the built-in Apache runs. Currently, the best argument for MAMP is that it doesn’t affect the built-in Apache. For a couple of years now, I’ve used, and advocated using, the MAMP application as the easiest way to run a Web server on a Mac.
