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xraystyle on May 22, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: My time with Rails is up

How is this relevant, exactly? Ruby was written on and designed to run on *NIX OS's, as is most of the software commonly found in webapps, because it all runs on Linux servers. I'm sure it'd be a pain in the ass to get MS Paint to run on Debian, too.

kefka on May 22, 2016 [–]

MS paint on Linux is easy.I double click on paint.exe and it runs.

And I have WINE to thank for that layer of compatibility.

JustSomeNobody on May 23, 2016 | [–]

You realize it is that easy for you because it was a pain in the bottom for someone else, yes?

askl56 on May 23, 2016 | | [–]

Isn't that the esssence of programming?

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