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Does this refer to the OS furthest away from what is running the code or the closest? Windows running WSL to support a Linux environment for Python... Windows

Does this refer to the OS furthest away from what is running the code or the closest? Windows running WSL to support a Linux environment for Python... Windows running a web browser accessing a colab notebook hosted on a Linux machine... macOS ssh'd into a Linux box with a tmux "development environment"... All (my) roads lead to Linux so I'll say Linux.

rvz 5y ago
It says 'develop on' not 'for', hence the mention of Desktop OSes as the client. Basically in your case, in simple terms: Windows.
- creshal 5y ago
  Is it really developed on Windows if Windows is solely only used as thin client to access something else? I'd say for examples #2 and #3 the development OS is definitely Linux. #1 is the only where I'd lean towards "Windows", since WSL tends to involve a much more split workflow, where a lot of your interactions happen outside the VM.
  - lostmsu 5y ago
    Why is #2 not Windows? He is in Windows. That remote machine hosting a notebook may tomorrow be replaced with Windows, and he would barely notice if he didn't put a lot of shell in his Python.
samwillis 5y ago
Yes, unfortunately phrased question. I think they are asking what OS is your development environment on, not deployment target. But a little ambiguous and so will probably be slightly unbalanced in it’s results.