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I love Visual Studio but after having worked with python quite a lot and being involved in the local developer community (IN NEOhio, NYC, and starting into Southern Maine) I think I've only ever meet two python developers who used windows as there development Os. I'm not holding my breath but if MS would port VS to OS X/Linux it would be really cool. I don't know that a good business case could be made for it though.

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On the other hand perhaps something could be done about Python so that we who are forced to develop Python on Windows stop being second-class citizens in the Python world?

ButI agree. VS is an awesome IDE and the more operating systems it would be available on the better.

You are fighting various other teams in Redmond/power users that have issues with OSS and technology that's cross platform and not from the Mothership. Python/Iron Python would have been a great default language for administrative scripting , but nope, they had to reinvent the wheel with PowerShell.

(I've had MVPs yell at me for discussing data analysis with Python, even on Windows.)

PowerShell is a very nice language in its own right, though.

I agree and am in the same boat. I don't mind windows, but for dev, linux is much more convenient. Also wanted to say hello from NEO.

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