When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and nobody cared

Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by nothrabannosir on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:19PM (#9199353)

I work and develop on Windows. Go, javascript / typescript and Scala, mostly. I can tell you: every development tool you can think of runs just fine on Windows. Natively:

* bash

* all the GNU tools (grep, less, ...)

* vim

* emacs

* npm

* all the npm tools (gulp, grunt, &c; everything installable through npm)

* gcc

* make

* IntelliJ

* ssh (command line or putty)

It's all here. Without cygwin. The only problem I ever have is performance of the FS on many small files. That's just terrible.

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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by ajanuary on Friday March 13, 2015 @03:50PM (#9199557)

"Just fine" might be overstating it a little. For example, I've often hit path length limits with npm. But definitely better than most people seem to expect.

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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by antihero on Friday March 13, 2015 @05:11PM (#9200072)

Having the tools is one thing, having an OS that you spend 60%+ of your waking hours on which is a pleasure to use and makes you happy is another.

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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by lectrick on Friday March 13, 2015 @06:13PM (#9200429)

I'd just run a *nix VM.

If your corporate policy even allowed that. :P

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Re:When IE gave us beautiful, fast touch interactions, and n... by cozuya on Friday March 13, 2015 @04:22PM (#9199766)

No nvm though, bizarrely.

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