Interested in finding platform-specific bugs in your software? Let a class of students who mostly use Windows (don't ask me why) try setting things up and running your tests. I promise you won't get through unscathed. Every project. Every time.
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I've started to tread lightly when bringing up basic portability mistakes to avoid that response, but imagine how it feels for a beginner who (like most people) is trying to learn to program on a Windows laptop.
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Sorry I had to teach while this conversation went on, great points throughout the thread. This point is what I am most interested in, because this describes my students perfectly. We need something like https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs … but for platform-assumption bugs in open source env
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