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Normal users, sure. But I wonder what fraction of developers use regularly/have ever used commandline tools? I can certainly see some environments in which you
by shabble 14y ago
Normal users, sure. But I wonder what fraction of developers use regularly/have ever used commandline tools?
I can certainly see some environments in which you might never be exposed, in things like Visual Studio, XCode, or Eclipse.
My recollection is that Windows has never really had a good native shell, but I've not used win7 for any length of time, and I'm not sure if Powershell ever became a thing. There's also cygwin, but I'm pretty sure that'll be more remote still.
I have a suspicion that the reason Github appears so mac-dominated is because of the pain of dealing with git under windows, especially when tortoise-git wasn't around/stable. Then again, there always seemed to be a heavy rails/OSX connection, but I don't know exactly where that comes from.
- philwelch 14y agoDHH and 37signals are vocal Mac users, and that's where Rails came from.
- lnguyen 14y agoPart of the issue with Windows is that the out-of-the-box scripting capability just wasn't there. Compare writing a batch script with a shell or perl script. Add to that inconsistencies in how commands handled spaces in names and issues with having to escape the '\'s in generated command lines. I know I would have avoided all of it if I wasn't being paid (well) to do it.
- tomwilson 14y agoPowershell never really took off except for admins doing stuff with exchange and what not. I'm an iOS developer sitting amongst 20 odd .NET devs and I'm the only one I ever see using a shell.
- cickpass_broken 14y agoI agree that Windows lacks a good shell. But Git is easy under Windows7 and Powershell. It's the one of the few tools that was easily installed and usable under Windows. (Though Rails and Node have joined the ranks recently).