alt Hacker NewsAs a developer, why target Linux in all it's permutations with an unstable ABI when I can target the only stable Linux ABI -- Win32?
If WINE fills the gap (and it largely does), there's zero reason to create native Linux builds. That's simply more bugs and more headaches for devs.
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yndoendo • yesterday at 2:33 AM
That is a subjective statement. We are moving our software off Windows to Linux hosting for our products. Microsoft has made Windows hostile to the embedded market. They are are pushing a Microsoft account over local with their IoT while plugging the hacks too.
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Not all software is for consumers and a good amount runs a hardware as a whole product. 2026 will be the year moving from Windows IoT / embedded to Linux as the host OS for the solutions I work on.
Personally, I find software more stable when coding on Linux and making Windows changes after it is operational. Windows takes more work with edge cases than Linux, BDS, and macOS.
Windows treats STDIN and STOUT different between console and GUI. All other OSes that I have worked on threat them the same.