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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Replying to @humphd
Windows is all too often an afterthought in the open source world, but an enormous number of people in the world use it primarily or even exclusively. I’ve found simply announcing I *care* about the Windows experience brings grateful devs out of the woodwork.
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Replying to @littlecalculist
'The inverse between "people using computers mostly use Windows" and "developers mostly don't use Windows" is amazing, yes' --the man typing on his Mac... Caring about Windows is a proxy for caring about people who do things differently than you. It's a great practice.
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Replying to @humphd
I’m not even sure it’s true that developers use mostly non-Windows. I wonder what the percentages look like eg amongst programmers in developing countries.
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Replying to @littlecalculist @humphd
You can imagine that maybe there aren't a lot of windows contributors to OSS projects because it literally doesn't work and not because the pool of developers naturally gravitates towards OSX. Could be. Possibly. Who knows?
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Come over to the east coast and you'll find that there's more Windows than Mac. And yes that makes open source work harder, especially when teaching.
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Less tongue in cheek: People seem to think that contributors "naturally" use Macs, and therefore we don't need to worry too much about the Windows contribs (who, they think, don't exist). In reality, prospective Windows contributors are bouncing off the process every day.
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Replying to @wycats @davemethvin and
The work that Microsoft is doing with the Linux Subystem and Bash is pretty incredible. Our entire dev stack is Mac/Linux, but I can largely get it working on Windows without issue. Docker is currently the blocker, but only because I've spent no time on it.
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I think that WSL will eventually be a game changer, but: 1. sometimes people are actually building Windows apps. We shouldn't abandon those people. 2. at the moment, it rarely works well enough to serve as a replacement for some reason, so don't rely on it
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