>>Strangely, Windows is one of the easier platforms to debug. Because mostly there are so many programming for it, thus lots of online experience to mine. I do

>>Strangely, Windows is one of the easier platforms to debug. Because mostly there are so many programming for it, thus lots of online experience to mine. I don't know about that, I find Linux to be absolutely the easiest platform to debug, personally .. so I haven't been much of a Windows 'person', but I do recognize that all platforms/architectures have their strengths. Its just that, for me, I see the solution to the whole twisted mess of it all is to simply define another platform. Windows serves as a great host environment for a Lua VM .. wrap this in such a way that the same basic code runs on all major platforms, and oila: no more dependency on outside frameworks/libs/etc. You own the platform in the 21st century, or it owns you. Simple as that; from the pepsiPhone to throwaway computing, we're all riding a slippery slope of use/dont-use because of, factually, fads. The new platform is the platform, as in the entire platform. If you have to subscribe, your toolset is broken.