&gt; Windows is a primitive development platform <i>out of the box</i><p>I think it&#x27;d be hard to argue that a fresh, clean install of windows isn&#x27;t an absolutely primitive development platform.<p>Not that I think it&#x27;s too relevant of an argument in this discussion, as no developer runs an &quot;out of the box&quot; install as a dev platform, but countering arguments that were never made doesn&#x27;t seem too productive.