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by mitchty 3636 days ago
I assume (presume perhaps) they're a windows user and the -dev mention is more for the case where debug symbols and packages are separated from non debug binaries.

I only know that windows does something different more akin to debug symbols in each binary by default with chicanery to not have it impact things in the general case. But I'm not a windows programmer this is about as much as I know about windows in that regard.
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shiggerino 3636 days ago
Never been a Windows user or programmer, but like you I've heard they do quite a lot of clever stuff under the hood. Probably a lot of VMS heritage, another system I've never had a chance to use but heard good things about. But every version I've tried since Windows 3.1 has had an abysmal user experience, so I've never once considered switching.

And that leaves no current viable alternatives to the Unix-like systems. Sad, really.

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