Is Windows development all boring app dev?
Seems to me that most of the interesting programming, such as distributed systems, targets Linux and BSD.
>>54798851
>app
>>54798851
It's an operating system, it's essentially front end so basically the same as android, ios, macos, js/html/css, etc.
The "interesting programming" as you call it typically focuses on data over user interaction. Either way, you're making a tool and the tool itself is what makes the programming interesting, not the domain per se.
>>54798851
You can do distributed system programming in Windows just fine the same way you can do drag-n-drop-baby's-first-program in Linux & BSD.
Your bait was delicious.
>>54798884
It's short for application program
The term was used in the 90s at least, maybe 80s
>>54798851
depends what you find interesting. personally i love working in directx on windows. distributed systems might be fun to you but not everyone likes the same things. windows is just fine for development of all kinds of things though, why would you think it isnt?
>>54798851
No, but Windows owns the desktop in businesses so there's a higher proportion of development for that stuff.
>>54799452
The NT kernel is not as good as various *nix kernels so that makes it a worse choice for a lot of demanding applications.
Does Windows still not support anything better than NTFS natively?
>>54800453
>Does Windows still not support anything better than NTFS natively?
KEK
they dont even support all features of NTFS
>>54798980
Is there another kind of program?
