[manoelito]

i agree. windows devs are lazy in their majority do not like to think outside the box and often when we say "there is a project on github that can help you" guys just respond you will use an open source solution for this project?

I do not understand why they can not analyze a few lines of code and insert them into your projects to optimize your ideas.

Lastly I'm working on a MS Windows team and the time squeeze, I always turn to something in windows would be impossible to do with only 1 line. Example: parse a PDF with pdftotext, read the contents and drive to another file already positioned with the help of Perl, Python or even a simple grep.

I do not know the MS ecosystem deeply and am still getting used. Particularly consider VS a great tool. The problem with using a Git server is very serious and gets to be frustrating but nothing that you can not do otherwise.

The MS has lately shown to follow a path of opening many of their tools following an open source model and I see it as a sign to encourage the use of various technologies (open source or not) to solve a problem. Situation which MS devs are not accustomed