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I would assume that most people developing on macOS have configured case sensitive filesystems. And does Windows do symlinks now?

Seems like a weird edge case to me. I guess Apple and Microsoft should push out OS updates to cover it.

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Windows has done symlinks (known as "junctions") since Windows 2000, so I guess it's a more recent feature you might not have learned about.

To be honest I was a heavy Windows user until Windows 7 yet only recently learned that it has symlink support. It's not something you (used to?) really come across in the ecosystem.

That said, I did snicker at the comment :) I had no idea it was that old.

That's a dishonest statement and misrepresents the actual support.

The "junctions" are unusable as "windows symlinks".

For one, you can't create any as a normal non-admin user without specific authorization by default.

Only the most sadistic company on earth is going to ask you to do development on a Windows machine without admin privileges.

I had exactly that done to me. By a huge 200k+ employees corporate monster... You can taste the humiliation of having to justify every sudo through a ticket system. They censored the internet for employees too, in an of course absurdly broken way. Made me learn to read ASN.1 printouts & detect tampering with TLS certs. Add to that an iconic "Office Space"-ey workplace atmosphere, absolutely toxic... made me _request a headset_ from the company (employees are not allowed to bring their own); 2 weeks of ticketing again, and they deliver: an rj45-plug phone headset, with three obscure boxes on the wire (I can only presume, for surveillance). I've been testing my limits for 3 months with them, and left without saying a word. A lesson is a lesson.

> most people developing on macOS have configured case sensitive filesystems

I don't think this is true at all. Too many things will break if you turn this on.

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