I was interviewed by Fog Creek

Re:I was interviewed by Fog Creek by outworlder on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:06AM (#9387971)

What if your production environment is Windows? They it doesn't matter. You have to use Visual Studio and the horrible terminal.

OSX has a decent terminal. Windows has not.

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Re:I was interviewed by Fog Creek by sremani on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:20AM (#9388067)

It has been stated here, most of the developers who are working heavily in Windows environment (myself included) use ConEmu. There are tools out there that do make Windows a productive environment.

Windows does suffer from short-comings but do not tell me OS X or Linux do not.

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Re:I was interviewed by Fog Creek by w4tson on Thursday April 16, 2015 @10:28AM (#9388136)

+1 for ConEmu. It's a life saver on Windows. I know it's a religious issue, M$ vs <whatever> but it is still kinda valid.

I work with some talented C# developers but I'm always thinking in the back of my mind : "what compels you to only develop for windows?".

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Re:I was interviewed by Fog Creek by s73v3r on Thursday April 16, 2015 @01:55PM (#9389596)

ConEmu doesn't solve the problem, as it's still using the Windows cmd.exe. Someone who's used to a UNIX terminal is likely used to something like bash or zsh. ConEmu doesn't give them that.

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Re:I was interviewed by Fog Creek by sremani on Friday April 17, 2015 @02:19PM (#9396152)

ConEmu has a tab for Powershell, and powershell does provide enough power to do scripting. If you are Unix developer, do not expect a one-to-one mapping on windows side. Treat using different OS like visiting a new country. There are many things similar but something subtly and some things starkly different.

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Re:I was interviewed by Fog Creek by RobinBlk7 on Thursday April 16, 2015 @07:32PM (#9391378)

bash and zsh are CLI. They are not terminals. Just run bash in ConEmu.

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