Coding on Windows

[apoyusiken]

So I daily drive linux and i love it, but people say coding is better on it and i dont really get it. So i will be using windows for a few months at school, wondering if there is coding stuff thats actually better on windows? And please dont say powershell.

[Eigenvektor]

Writing programs for Windows, e.g. using Visual Studio and/or Microsoft .NET, is obviously better on Windows.

 

What's usually better on Linux is all of the tooling around programming, especially if it uses a CLI. But I would assume you can just use WSL for that.

[xAcid9]

Once you've start doing coding for real then you'll know which one is better... for you. 

[apoyusiken]

1 hour ago, Eigenvektor said:

Writing programs for Windows, e.g. using Visual Studio and/or Microsoft .NET, is obviously better on Windows.

 

What's usually better on Linux is all of the tooling around programming, especially if it uses a CLI. But I would assume you can just use WSL for that.

i have no interest in making sindows apps, basically the question is, is there any projects i might wanna build and is better done on windows, so i better get it done before i move back to linux

 

people run vs code from wsl, what changes? i setup wsl for arr stack bc they basically suck on windows.

 

11 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Once you've start doing coding for real then you'll know which one is better... for you. 

yea but i dont think there is a big difference for normal coding, as you pointed out for different niches one might be superior

 

[Eigenvektor]

1 hour ago, apoyusiken said:

i have no interest in making sindows apps, basically the question is, is there any projects i might wanna build and is better done on windows, so i better get it done before i move back to linux

Depends on what the school expects you to do during those months. If activities include software development, you'll likely want to follow along using the same tools as everyone else.

 

If you don't use Windows in private, I see no reason to develop any personal projects on Windows. Just run Windows using dual boot or a virtual machine. You don't need to "move back" to anything if you never remove Linux in the first place.

 

1 hour ago, apoyusiken said:

people run vs code from wsl, what changes? i setup wsl for arr stack bc they basically suck on windows.

I'm talking about Visual Studio, the full blown IDE for .NET apps, not Visual Studio Code. (I really hate that Microsoft chose this name for a vastly different app…).

[apoyusiken]

38 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

Depends on what the school expects you to do during those months. If activities include software development, you'll likely want to follow along using the same tools as everyone else.

 

If you don't use Windows in private, I see no reason to develop any personal projects on Windows. Just run Windows using dual boot or a virtual machine. You don't need to "move back" to anything if you never remove Linux in the first place.

yea but the point was to take advantage of windows, and apparently its not good for anything i might wanna do, and for context currently im looking to build various projects abt different swe niches for learning, like web servers from scratch and text editors and stuff

 

38 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

I'm talking about Visual Studio, the full blown IDE for .NET apps, not Visual Studio Code. (I really hate that Microsoft chose this name for a vastly different app…).

i know i mentioned a different thing