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I think if someone were, for example, to release an open source C++ library and it only compiles for Linux or only comes with Bash scripts then I would not consider that library to be crossplatform nor would I consider it to run everywhere.

I don’t think it’s “just semantics”. I think it’s a meaningful distinction.

Game dev is a perhaps a small niche of computer programming. I mean these days the majority of programming is webdev JavaScript, blech. But game dev is also overwhelmingly Windows based. So I dispute any claim that Unix is “everywhere”. And I’m regularly annoyed by people who falsely pretend it is.



Unix is everywhere. Except for Windows Desktops and a few places that like to run Windows Server enviroments. Those are increasingly rare.


So Unix is everywhere. Except for the places it’s not.

And “increasingly rare” does not mean “rare”. And even if it were “quite rare”, which it isn’t, that doesn’t imply “not supported”.

And just to add salt to the wound Linux is a profoundly worse dev environment. It’s quite the tragedy.




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