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by mgkimsal 3517 days ago
this was the opposite of 20 years ago - sure, you can do loads on macs, except build visual basic apps for the windows ecosystem.

shoe's on the other foot now.

if MS had done a better job in mobile, there'd be more reason to target windows for regular joe consumers, but they lost that market (for now anyway?). :(
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vaishaksuresh 3517 days ago
> except build visual basic apps for the windows ecosystem

Parallels/BootCamp?

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mgkimsal 3517 days ago
> this was the opposite of 20 years ago

perhaps I should have put that other part in quotes. that was the refrain from mac-bashers at the time (well, one of them). Everything revolved around windows ecosystem, it had the developer mindshare and market strength, etc.

It's not the same story today.

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lunchboxsushi 3517 days ago
asp.net core 1 is cross platform, using visual studio code you can now build lots without visual studio... but not older enterprise projects of course and or visual projects.
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