You realise that OSX is the only mainstream certified UNIX in common use, right? It LITERALLY IS a UNIX.
Right. Exactly. I'm saying that Linux+OSX=Unix is actually causing the exact confusion you were worried about.
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I don't use UNIX to mean that. You shouldn't either. Writing portable code is not hard. Fucked if I'm going to test it on Windows though.
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I did _so much_ interoperability work at HashiCorp (not least for Windows) that I'm prepared to say this unequivocally: Windows is harder.
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1: I think it's hard to unravel the lived experience of "Windows is harder" which I of course agree with, and "there are fewer existing
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2: infrastructure pieces that already support Windows", which imo is a big part of why it feels harder. I also have done a ton of interop
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3: work, including doing the design for the Rust time stdlib and helping with the Rust nix (Unix shim) and mio libraries in the early days
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4/4: I this it's unquestionable that the experience of supporting Windows is harder. The question to ask is why.
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What's the ideal way to distribute a C library to make it easy for Windows developers to use it? Bare .c & .h files to copy paste?
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