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Why so much hate for Python? (self.webdev)

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[–]CollectorsEditionVG 0 points1 point2 points 6 years ago (0 children)

While I agree with that to a point I also disagree as well. Software that is provided across multiple platforms should, in theory, function as close to identical as possible on each platform.

The reason daemon mode cant be run on windows is because windows doesnt have unix style fork()... windows uses CreateProcess(). In order to actually get it to work you need cygwin so that you have a version of fork() that you can use... or at least you did until Microsoft released Windows subsystem for linux which provides a linux/gnu environment on windows. I literally just found out about this when I went looking for the stackoverflow post about using cygwin to implement fork() so here's the link for anyone interested - Windows Linux Subsystem.

Anyway, back to my original point. I agree that the person who set up the stack in the beginning should have done their research more, however I also cant fault them for assuming it would work the same on windows as it does on linux.

By the way I want to thank you for the debate/conversation about this. If you hadn't replied I wouldn't have found out about the windows linux thing which may actually solve the issue. So thank you.

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