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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by ZanyProgrammer on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:05PM (#10340380)
Someday someone should write a book published by one of the tech book publishers about how to set up non Visual Studio dev environments on Windows (RoR, Django, PHP/MySQL, etc). It seems like things have gotten to the point where developing on Windows == MSFT dev tools, and everything else is Mac/*nix.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by wdmeldon on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:16PM (#10340515)
It honestly feels a lot like all the kids in the neighborhood just got new mountain bikes and you're still using a scooter. You can usually keep up, but as soon as they go off the road, you're on your own.

VMs are 100% the way to go, but I am consistently frustrated by incompatibility, especially with the nodejs ecosystem. Windows users are a huge minority so tools are rarely built with a non *Nix environment in mind.

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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by pvnick on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:08PM (#10340420)
It certainly feels that way, perhaps because I'm so used to apt on linux and windows just doesn't have any equivalent tools that I'm aware of. There's still a long ways to go on the software side to bridge the gap between the Microsoft and open source ecosystems.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by kyriakos on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @02:07PM (#10340994)
been using windows for web development for a long time. almost every tool comes with windows support. there are some exceptions but there are always alternatives.
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Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft by Too on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @01:31PM (#10340667)
With WAMP you can get php and MySQL running quickly. Python and java also works very good on windows, both runtime and selection of dev environment.
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