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Maybe it is just because WINAPI is different from *nix.

• mercer 11y ago
  That's a good point. It was probably easier to port it to Linux. I can't see why they would intentionally avoid Microsoft (at least not at this point in their history).
  • lukeh 11y ago
    Maybe MS will do it given they're porting ObjC.
    • cmyr 11y ago
      MS will almost definitely do it. They've mentioned (maybe off the record) that they were looking into it, and this should seal the deal.
    • philoushka 11y ago
      Swift + .NET Framework would be interesting
• fixermark 11y ago
  As easy as it is to ignore the difference in these days of cross-platform development toolchains and environments, they still are very different operating systems under-the-hood. As opposed to OSX and Linux, which are both rooted in a UNIX past and therefore have some shared assumptions about how things like a directory structure and process management are supposed to work.