alt Hacker NewsI know this comment is effectively a side tangent on a side tangent. but that was always the strangest thing to me as well. I remember in 2012 when I was debating fiddling around with Bitcoin. that was one of the things that turned me off. I was sure that there was no way something as brilliant as this was supposed to be was developed by windows user.
Which surely says something about all these ideological purity tests
Windows developers (like sysadmins) are of two kinds in my experience.
People who don't understand shit about how the system behaves and are comfortable with that. "I install a package, I hit the button, it works"
.. and
People who understand very deeply how computers work, and genuinely enjoy features of the NT Kernel, like IOCP and the performance counters they offer to userland.
What's weird to me is that the competence is bimodal; you're either in the first camp or the second. With Linux (+BSD/Solaris etc;) it's a lot more of a spectrum.
I've never understood exactly why this is, but it's consistent. There's no "middle-good" Windows developer.