On Thursday, 19 October 2017 at 08:36:55 UTC, Ecstatic Coder
wrote:
I agree. I had this mindset once, but now I'm completely
demotivated, and you now know because of what and who.
Well it happend to me too... I turned to Windows after my first
experiences with linux and freebsd in the nineties..
Took me a good decade to visit them again...
Today FreeBSD is always my first choice.
Go figure. (took a lot of effort on my part, to learn how to do
things though. And thank to all the 'contributors' that helped
make that easier for me.
This revert back to open source only happened, because I
corrected my expectations. They were too high initially. And I
had to learn 'how to learn', rather than just expect.
I was just saying that the advice on the above post, asking
people to stop using Windows and use FreeBSD etc, is not what
Windows scripters need and want.
You might remember that I intentionally prefaced that post with
"don't take my response too seriously...but..."
Did you skip that line, perhaps?
btw. What is it, that a Windows scripter, needs and wants and
doesn't already have?
That's not an attack btw. I am genuinely interested, as there are
so many better, all encompassing solutions to such a problem (on
the Windows platform). e.g Powershell... and even..dare I say
it... python...ooohhhh.....
Don't forget D was 'specfically' designed to be a better C/C++
...that is it's origin. That's the audience it specifically
targets.
It's not designed to give people a better experience scripting on
the Windows platform (or any other platform for that matter), and
it certainly does not target such an audience.
