On Monday, 29 December 2014 at 14:45:37 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Wasting effort of core contributors on a toolchain I will never use is against my interests and makes me naturally hostile about it.
I don't think it needs to be a zero-sum game. Removing blockers to entry can make an orders-of-magnitude difference in the number of users for a particular platform, and when you gain users, you gain developers. Paying now to remove basic usability issues could well free up a lot of core contributor time in future, by opening a door for Windows devs that makes it worth their while to invest effort into the language and its toolchain.
