I totally agree, when I'm working on my OS project I just assume Linux/GCC. These days you're only about 30 seconds away from having a brand new Linux machine u

I totally agree, when I'm working on my OS project I just assume Linux/GCC. These days you're only about 30 seconds away from having a brand new Linux machine up and running in AWS/Google. Porting across systems is just too time consuming. As this example shows you can't even count on basic POSIX stuff working everywhere.