Honestly? Having written software for both Win32 is actually pretty nice to work in. Better in many ways than the alternatives. Most of the things Raymond goes

Honestly? Having written software for both Win32 is actually pretty nice to work in. Better in many ways than the alternatives. Most of the things Raymond goes on about are weird quirks you can ignore for the most part. Whereas there are some very serious hazards running around POSIX if you're not careful that can bite hard. Glares at signals I much prefer the EVENT based system Win32 goes with. You can just suspend on the event and not worry about it. The kernel will wake you up when it matters. Also MS seems to have very serious API design rules that help keep usage patterns consistent, which is important in making sure things aren't accidentally misused.