> I develop on a Windows laptop and deploy to Linux all of the time. I have some Python programs that have native dependencies. I still develop on Windows, push

> I develop on a Windows laptop and deploy to Linux all of the time. I have some Python programs that have native dependencies. I still develop on Windows, push and the CI/CD pipeline runs on Linux and packages a Windows build. Only peripherally related to your point, but I develop with Python on Windows and found that deploying to Linux, while in possible, can be a hassle in practice. For instance, I use turbodbc on Windows to access SQL Server databases via ODBC. This works fine. However, when I try to port the same code to ARM Linux (on Raspberry Pi), I learn that ODBC has dependency on the native ODBC driver which doesn't exist on the ARM platform. So I have to jump through all kinds of loops to compile FreeTDS and unixODBC, which aren't trivial. Not only that, I had to cross-compile on an x64-Linux VM to the ARM architecture because the Raspberry Pi itself didn't have enough disk space for gcc and such. I think cross-architecture compilation isn't the issue -- it's cross-platform deployment, especially when there's no parity in dependency availability.