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Microsoft are paying core devs to work on it full time, for one.



Which is strange considering how bad the tooling to use Python on Windows is. There's a few workflows where people have gone down the beaten path before (Conda, etc.), but outside of that you have to just pretend you're on Linux and use the cygwin toolchains and even that doesn't always work so well. Better support on Linux was a top 5 reason for me making the switch to using it full time when I went off to college, and it hasn't changed substantially in the 8 years since then.


Not sure what you mean. I use Python for Windows all the time at work, and on Linux at home. I've not noticed any meaningful difference in my workflow.




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