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It all depends which part of "reality" you focus on. I doubt that Windows is dominant anywhere where interesting stuff happens: be it HN, or developers' confere
by rimantas 15y ago
It all depends which part of "reality" you focus on. I doubt that Windows is dominant anywhere where interesting stuff happens: be it HN, or developers' conference (save for .NET).
As for balance: this goes both ways. However it is much more difficult to find someone with no experience of Windows (I've used MS products for 15+ years before switching and still have Windows VM for testing) than someone with no experience with OS X. Somehow that does not stop the latter crowd from talking about walled gardens, form over function, „it's all marketing“, computers for non-techie people (it's UNIX, are you kidding me?), hipsters and gays, etc.
- CoryMathews 15y ago"I doubt that Windows is dominant anywhere where interesting stuff happens: be it HN, or developers' conference" FUD
- rbanffy 15y agoActually, I perceive it too. Most Windows developers I meet are doing either Java or .Net - or, even worse, SAP, Oracle or... maintaining legacy VB client server/stuff. That's not a place you would expect interesting things to happen. At least, not for me - I focus on dynamic languages, web frameworks and distributed databases - the interesting stuff can usually be coerced into running on Windows, but it tends to involve things like Cygwin or VMs. If you have to use Cygwin or a VM to do your job, you are really running the wrong OS for the job.
- rimantas 15y agohttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303726 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303726 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398989 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398989 (There may be more recent ones) As for developers' conferences, you got to see yourself. Should corelate with the second poll though.