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Re:Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their p... by XtalJ on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:14AM (#13434868)
At my new job, yes, but I solved the hideous problem by installing Babun, which is a package of a fairly good terminal emulator (mintty), cygwin, package manager, and my beloved zsh :-) I can use vim, grep, ls, find, sed, shell scripts, and much more. Like on Linux but without the possiblity to choose fluxbox as window manager.
Re:Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their p... by severus on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:45AM (#13433909)
Yes
Re:Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their p... by zero_one_one on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:56AM (#13433950)
I wish I had more upvotes to give this answer!
Re:Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their p... by boznz on Thursday January 19, 2017 @02:35PM (#13438786)
I would suspect most are.. I doubt they read HN though
Re:Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their p... by andreicon on Thursday January 19, 2017 @03:53AM (#13434200)
I'm using it at work and it's a pain. Don't go down that path unless you're writing windows applications. For anything else, use a real OS
Re:Ask HN: Any programmer/developer using Windows as their p... by Garvey on Thursday January 19, 2017 @06:20AM (#13434895)
I'm using it at work and it's a pleasure.

Use whatever fits your workflow and try not to be put off by comments like this that offer no useful information.