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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.

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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.

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