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You accidentally summarized my experience with development on Windows in the nineties :-)
It's funny that what was designed as a feature of the ecosystem (tooling that abstracts complexity), completely turned me away from Windows development and into Linux development. Development on linux was, at the time, much cruder and closer to the metal. The positive note was that everyone was on the same boat, so documentation of low level routines, as well as community support, were flawless.
(not that I can, to this day, understand documentation created by kernel hackers, such as the documentation of nftables, tc or the ifb module, but I digress)
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You accidentally summarized my experience with development on Windows in the nineties :-)
It's funny that what was designed as a feature of the ecosystem (tooling that abstracts complexity), completely turned me away from Windows development and into Linux development. Development on linux was, at the time, much cruder and closer to the metal. The positive note was that everyone was on the same boat, so documentation of low level routines, as well as community support, were flawless.
(not that I can, to this day, understand documentation created by kernel hackers, such as the documentation of nftables, tc or the ifb module, but I digress)