Questions about windows support

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Tuesday, February 21, 2012 01:11:33 Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 20 February 2012 at 23:51:38 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
> 
> wrote:
> > I would consider the Windows console to be junk in
> > comparison to the Linux console, but I'm almost always in Linux.
> 
> Are you talking about the console, or the shell (and ecosystem)?
> The linux shells are a lot easier to use than cmd.exe for
> the most point, but programming is another story.
> 
> Windows console is like something from the 80's.
> 
> Linux terminals is like ten incompatible things, all
> from the 70's. A lot of nonsense you have to worry
> about - character encoding for input and output, the
> escape sequences, again in and out (ever use a linux
> terminal where your arrow keys didn't work? Ever have
> to press escape twice? This sucks for programming and using.)
> 
> Huge pain in the butt.

I'm talking bash vs cmd.exe. In my experience, you only run into weird 
terminal nonsense with old computers or maybe sometimes with ssh. Other than 
that, there aren't any weird problems like that.

- Jonathan M Davis