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I never said it wasn't the biggest deployment target. I also think it's shortsighted to do this. > you are not doing yourself any favors by not developing on t
by metaltyphoon 5y ago
I never said it wasn't the biggest deployment target. I also think it's shortsighted to do this.
> you are not doing yourself any favors by not developing on the same platform as your deploy target
Why would I give up all the tooling I already have, such as an VS, to "do development on Linux"? Have you tried doing development from Visual Studio, VSCode on windows where it targets WSL? It's seamless and I don't really have to care much about Linux as a Desktop.
- packetlost 5y agoYou can do that exact setup just fine with Hare only being able to compile for Linux (or FreeBSD). Providing a Linux runtime environment to run code that targets Linux is WSLs whole purpose.
- metaltyphoon 5y agoAnd here is the entire problem. > code that targets Linux This is too big of an assumption to make. For instance, the last company I worked for does contract with DOD where output of the project is two installers for windows an macOS, despite the product working flawlessly on Linux. The is a HUGE world out there where your deployment targets won't be Linux servers, and this is a huge blind spot for a mainstream want to be language.
- packetlost 5y agoNobody ever said it wanted to be mainstream. It targets a niche, quite blatantly.
- metaltyphoon 5y agoNo based on what's going on the thread. There is comparison everywhere with mainstream languages.
- wheelerof4te 5y agoIt is fine to compare it to the mainstream languages, that's what programmers do.