Redis for win32 and the Microsoft patch

Re:Redis for win32 and the Microsoft patch by wpeterson on Friday December 09, 2011 @08:45AM (#3333641)

Unless you're using Microsoft servers/tools like .NET, this is another nail in the coffin as Windows machines as a viable platform for most web-development.

I spent the first year of my Rails development on Windows and it was so painful - slower, strange bugs, many unsupported tools/libraries.

This seems like a reasonable decision, but one in a long list of reasons you can't easily develop on Windows unless you're targeting a Microsoft stack for your product.

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Re:Redis for win32 and the Microsoft patch by untog on Friday December 09, 2011 @09:42AM (#3333814)

Yes and no. I sometimes develop in Windows (I find the UI easier to work with than OS X or Linux, just a personal preference) and I just run all the server-side tools I need in a tiny Linux VirtualBox VM.

It's an ideal setup, really- when I'm done with development and watch to kick back and watch a movie, I just put the VM into sleep mode and kill off those background tasks.

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