Comment by vadimberman | Hacker News Reader

Comment by vadimberman | Hacker News Reader

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Wow. How is a system not supporting the most widespread desktop platform on the planet claiming to be cross-platform?

Having said that, there might be a way. From their FAQ:

> It might well be possible to make it work using Cygwin or MinGW / MSYS, or the recent Ubuntu on Windows development though. We aren't doing this work ourselves because we don't have any Windows machines, but we're happy to accept PRs in that direction.

Not sure I want to use a platform which the dev team can't test (and there are other alternatives), but it might work after all.

A side remark, the link posted below in this thread contains an awesome "awesome" list. For those interested, here is a (truly) awesome list of dataset resources: https://github.com/awesomedata/awesome-public-datasets.

Cross-platform just means more than one platform. Nothing more. There's segments of developer market that don't need Windows support. Those targeting Linux/BSD, Mac desktops + Linux-based backends (i.e. cloud), multiple UNIXen (eg Linux + Solaris), embedded developed on Linux boxes, etc.

I encourage Windows versions of cross-platform apps wherever the app could justify it due to all the developers and tooling on Windows. Yet, non-Windows apps can be cross-platform.

they could be cross platform, but thats not really what people think.. when someone says cross platform i definitely expect windows support

If someone says cross platform and it supports Linux, Mac, and BSDs, that is good enough for me. I have not done any development work on Windows in my entire life just like I have not done any development work on my Android phone.

Just offering a counterviewpoint.

I for one do not expect windows support in a build system. Recently, someone said adding support for space in the filename in make adds a complexity we can avoid. I'd argue adding Windows support adds a complexity we can avoid. I'd rather they didn't support Windows. I say we can revisit this issue if enough people still use Windows on the server ten years from now.

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