You have to install extra crap to get the terminal to work like unix and I always had to fight with it to install things. Not worth the time. Maybe if you don't need a terminal though?

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You install git and you get git bash that works great in the Windows terminal. That's something you do once. I use the terminal daily, not an issue at all.

[–] r1veRRR@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cool, and then there's NEVER any problems with different paths? With back and forward slashes? With the limit on path length? With missing permissions on the file system requiring weird workarounds?

Most importantly, your server is likely not Windows, yet you test on Windows, and that's never ever been a serious source of issues?

And don't say WSL. That's like saying the fix to using Windows is to use Linux, but fiddlier. Not to mention you still get issues with the mounted file system.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 0 points 4 days ago

Cool, and then there’s NEVER any problems with different paths? With back and forward slashes? With the limit on path length? With missing permissions on the file system requiring weird workarounds?

Nope. The language we use handles that for us. I don't think path length has been an issue for a while now?

Most importantly, your server is likely not Windows, yet you test on Windows, and that’s never ever been a serious source of issues?

We use serverless functions using Linux and it's never an issue. My previous employer, we had Windows servers and Linux based containers, and that wasn't an issue either.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I never had to do anything on my Mac it just works every time

Also some of the libraries I use aren't even supported on windows. I know a bunch of node libraries that I had to change in project repos to accommodate engineers using windows specifically. Windows is shit

Also it's riddled with ads

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Enterprise Windows does not get all those ads. I haven't seen a single ad on any of my Windows machines.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Apple doesn't sell a Mac version with ads and a version without so that seems better to me too. Why do I have to pay extra for that?

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Because you’re already paying more for the hardware with a Mac.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org -4 points 5 days ago

Or you could just use a cross platform terminal such as Powershell? I also use Terminal to have nice UX.

[–] UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

This sounds more like IT babysitting.

If IT cant trust software engineers to have full admin rights on a work computer, either the calibur of your co workers is so bad that no one should want to work there, or the IT department has such a god complex, no one should want to work there.

[–] aeiou_ckr@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No IT should trust devs to have full admin rights. Y'all know enough to fuck everything up and then blame IT for not knowing how to fix your weird ass edge case in 30 seconds before crying to the CIO.

[–] r1veRRR@feddit.org 3 points 4 days ago

It obviously depends on the environment, but if I am supposed to develop tools that, in theory, can fuck up everything, then I also need access to everything (on my machine). There's no point in testing, if the elevated access rights on the server suddenly surface a fuckton of extra bugs.

Heck, I need admin just for the basics of installing developer tools and opening web ports.

They tried to lock our stuff down once. After a couple of days of absolutely zero work being done because all our tooling was missing, and the poor IT guy had to somehow learn how to install every tool we needed and taking forever, we just got sudo rights.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 4 days ago

[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What ide are you using?

[–] UPGRAYEDD@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Im in firmware. IDEs change often depending on the chip i am working with. In some cases, the tools are better on windows, or have been in the past. It has gotten alot better recently.

[–] yabbadabaddon@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

How do you audit your IDEs extensions?