on all platforms of consequence Those are quite the weasel words. Stay within the narrowly-defined targets for any language or ecosystem and you'll be happy.

on all platforms of consequence Those are quite the weasel words. Stay within the narrowly-defined targets for any language or ecosystem and you'll be happy. Once you start trying to do something interesting and supporting multiple versions of Windows Server $oldversions-that-your-customers-insist-on you will run up against the rough edges and will be screaming at Microsoft's handling of: codepages, charsets, filenames, installer standards (anyone actually using MSIX now? Do you enjoy writing your own installers using WiX or one of the proprietary fragmented toolchains?). Microsoft still sucks, still seeks to restrict your freedoms with licensing and copyrights and is infinitely more fragmented and complex and incompatible than *NIX.