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In my experience doing systems programming across Windows, macOS, and Linux, there are a few specific areas where developing on Windows is the best platform. Game development is one of them: DirectX 12 is the industry standard graphics API, and the first- and third-party tooling related to it is cream of the crop on Windows.

.NET development is another area where Windows shines. And if you're comfortable living in Visual Studio and not really venturing into the CLI world, I can see Windows development being very nice. VS is truly the premier IDE.

With that said, for most other types of development, Windows is unergonomic or an outright PITA compared to Linux and macOS. Web development, data science, embedded, scientific computing, general scripting, and anything related to CLI tooling and development. This isn't a secret either: it's why WSL was launched to such acclaim from developers.

parent dlivingston 2 years ago

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