Visual studio won at the zero-to-interactive-program metric. People who have never programmed are not going to care so much about portability as they are about

Visual studio won at the zero-to-interactive-program metric. People who have never programmed are not going to care so much about portability as they are about not getting stuck trying to figure out how to install/make things work properly on their systems. The modern ‘getting started’ choice is often python which doesn’t give you such an easy path to interactivity and has its own portability problems.