>But, dear people that do this, I'm afraid you appear not to have noticed that portability is your job, not platform vendors'.
That's rich. CPU manufacturers ship C compilers and virtually every operating system other than Windows provides a POSIX interface (and in fact, so did Windows at one point!).
Consider the math; if the platform supports portable interfaces then the vendor did a small amount of work to support a large number of programs. If the programs support the platform then a large number of programs have to do the work to support a single platform.
Windows is quickly losing what little relevance it has left. Today's most relevant platform is the web and end users are accessing it on their phones - and we both know how Windows for phones ended. Windows Server is a bad joke and the servers which power the platforms of today are run on Unicies and programmed by engineers on Unicies. Windows is dying quickly and is simply not important anymore. What few end users they have left are being driven away to Chromebooks and Macbooks by unwanted updates, advertising, and a non-stop barrage of annoying bullshit.
That's rich. CPU manufacturers ship C compilers and virtually every operating system other than Windows provides a POSIX interface (and in fact, so did Windows at one point!).
Consider the math; if the platform supports portable interfaces then the vendor did a small amount of work to support a large number of programs. If the programs support the platform then a large number of programs have to do the work to support a single platform.
Windows is quickly losing what little relevance it has left. Today's most relevant platform is the web and end users are accessing it on their phones - and we both know how Windows for phones ended. Windows Server is a bad joke and the servers which power the platforms of today are run on Unicies and programmed by engineers on Unicies. Windows is dying quickly and is simply not important anymore. What few end users they have left are being driven away to Chromebooks and Macbooks by unwanted updates, advertising, and a non-stop barrage of annoying bullshit.