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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by dleslie on Sunday January 17, 2021 @02:44PM (#25814169)
Most of the world uses Windows.

If you're building software targeted at most of the world it makes sense to use Windows.

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by inertiatic on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:48PM (#25814801)
Most of the world uses Android to run their browsers, right? Should I develop on Android?
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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by BeetleB on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:02PM (#25815538)
Are you suggesting that most of the existing Windows SW out there could be developed on Linux and would just run fine on Windows? Can MS reasonably develop MS Office on Linux? Can Adobe develop Lightroom on Linux and it'll just work on Windows?

For most Windows SW, the answer is no. So the analogy with Android doesn't make much sense.

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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by pjmlp on Sunday January 17, 2021 @04:58PM (#25815494)
Actually according to Google own statistics, most of Android Studio users are on Windows.
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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by csomar on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:19PM (#25815721)
Not really. Android, Web, Embedded, Networking can be done in Linux.
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Re:The values of Emacs, the Neovim revolution, and the VSCod... by dleslie on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:46PM (#25816033)
I meant desktop software, but even so most Android users also use Windows, and pair Android with Windows. Most Android developers use Windows.
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