From looking for front end jobs for the last few months, so far as I've seen, everyone not running C# is on a Mac
I haven't seen anyone at all running Node or Angular/React using a Windows environment
That's a very big long term problem for MS
I haven't seen anyone at all running Node or Angular/React using a Windows environment
That's a very big long term problem for MS
FWIW, node.js and most frontend tooling (like webpack, gulp, etc) works excellent cross platform. It's very easy to build a frontend dev setup that works great on Linux, OSX and Windows without any hacks or testing if you choose to fully depend on Node for scripting. Use NPM scripts that call .js files instead of using .sh files and you're basically there. Node's somethingSomethingSync API is great for scripting anyway (plus, any frontend devs can now hack on your automation as well, without learning bash).
So there's good advantages to scripting your stuff in JS anyway, and an extra bonus is that you can be quite sure that everything will work out of the box on any platform. Node's cross platform support is really that good.
This is what we run in part of my company...
I don't see any issue with developing in NodeJS in Windows (except compiling native bindings and Visual Studio issues with long paths). Microsoft is incorporating more and more plugins in Visual Studio to help web developers. It is just a matter of time.
C/C++ are still some of the most used language in the world, and a significant share of all c++/c software have been written on Windows machine.