I think this headline should read specific to C/C++ for Linux. I'm still not sure that I agree with the above, but I do know for sure I couldn't say this about

I think this headline should read specific to C/C++ for Linux. I'm still not sure that I agree with the above, but I do know for sure I couldn't say this about Python, Java, Go, web, etc. because development on Windows for any of these most popular languages is braindead simple in those cases. In fact it's much easier than setting up in Linux or Mac for the same thing. Especially in a multi platform enterprise environment with lots of security controls and a need for cross platform file sharing. To put this in perspective, this article is a tour of trying to do cross platform development in C/C++ on the only desktop OS that it's reasonable to do that in at all.