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That’s why I find it hard to convince people how annoying it is to use Windows for software development. It’s hard to miss what you aren’t aware of.

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We are working hard to fix this. We ship Curl (and ssh and bsdtar) in Windows 10, and you can use WSL to run whatever Linux tools you want.

Make sure you start posting more sample code for these tools. Most windows devs are not aware of the command line or find it "unprofessional".

Yup, well aware of your team's efforts. I think it's a great step forward, and from the little I've used it I think it's pretty cool.

I really appreciate your work, it's made my day to day so much better.

You have a true once in a life time opportunity with how badly Apple is screwing the hardware pooch, if your hardware division could put out a laptop to rival the retina Macbook pro with up to date hardware and an excellent command line ecosystem you could very well shift an entire generation away from OsX.

Thanks for all the hard work I'm using Linux for windows right now.

> You have a true once in a life time opportunity with how badly Apple is screwing the hardware pooch, if your hardware division could put out a laptop to rival the retina Macbook pro with up to date hardware and an excellent command line ecosystem you could very well shift an entire generation away from OsX.

Surface?

Funny, those of us who enjoy using Windows (esp. Visual Studio) for dev but are aware of how powerful command line tools are find it hard to convince you guys of the reverse in exactly the same way. We don't get the feeling you know what you're missing out on either. ;)

Is there a difference between Visual Studio's Windows and Linux versions?

Visual studio and visual studio code are two very different products. Visual studio doesn't even run on Linux.

Thanks for the explanation.

I think you could say Visual Studio Code is to Visual Studio as GIMP is to Adobe Photoshop? Decent, and still useful/handy, but honestly still not even a comparable substitute.

I spend half my waking hours staring at Xcode, so believe me, I do know when command line tools are lacking ;)

You should try Visual Studio, on Windows if you have to ;) it's not just CLI vs. GUI that I'm talking about, though that's of course a significant part of it too. Eclipse is a GUI too but I still find it painful. (w.r.t. Xcode I've only barely touched it, so hard to compare, but nothing particularly good or bad stood out to me in the little bit I used it.)

You just download nix tools for windows.

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