Also, re this: "but being a single platform developer kind of sucks. Become the kind of developer who doesn't care what platform they get to develop on". I agr

Also, re this: "but being a single platform developer kind of sucks. Become the kind of developer who doesn't care what platform they get to develop on". I agree with this in principle. But in practice... I invite you to develop large and complicated projects (like non-small games) and see if you retain this opinion. I find that work environment matters, a lot. The thing that's a little sad is that developing on Linux could be great, if only open source developers had a culture of working a little harder and taking their projects past the 'basically working' stage and toward hardened completion. When things are solid and just magically work without you having to figure out how to install them or what config file to tweak, it drastically reduces friction on your productivity. So there's a productivity multiplier that open source developers are not getting, thus making all their work harder; because hardly anyone works on the basic tools, everyone else's development is more painful and takes longer, but nobody realizes this because everyone is used to it. If someone made a debugger that let you inspect/understand programs 2x as efficiently as gdb does (I think this is not even an ambitious goal), how much would that help every open source developer? How much more powerful and robust and effective would all open source software become? (At least all software written in the languages addressed by said debugger...)