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@halikular they work fine because they are Windows-only programs written by Windows-only programmers.

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ocdtrekkie

@bagder @halikular And CLI software doesn't suck on Windows. The core issue is that basically every OS that isn't Windows agrees on POSIX-like terminals, and Windows does its own thing. So running stuff between Mac and Linux will generally feel fine, but between those and Windows will always entail some sort of compatibility shim. But you can also write CLI software natively for Windows and that works great.

halikular

@ocdtrekkie @bagder This is just one case and might be outdated, but the mpv developer(s) rants more about macos than windows. Mpv which the original root fork was written for linux. github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki

I wonder how much code is actually shared between platforms by common open source projects and which platform is hardest to develop for with the most hacks. Windows is hardest for curl, but it’d be interesting to know the rest.

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