On 12-11-20 05:37 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:

No; the first sentence says that someone else had reported that testing on Windows was hard to do because of (a perceived) lack of access to Windows by Haskell developers... The implication is that Haskell developers (only/mainly) use *nix.
I commented that if true this lack of Windows testing could limit the availability of Haskell to the largest market share of users.

Clearly, since >90% of computers have Windows, it should be trivial to find one to test on, if a programmer wants to. Surely every programmer is surrounded by Windows-using family and friends? (Perhaps to the programmer's dismay, too, because the perpetual "I've got a virus again, can you help?" is so annoying?) We are not talking about BeOS.

Therefore, if programmers do not test on Windows, it is because they do not want to.

This logic is flawed. More than 90% of computers having Windows doesn't imply that 90% of all computers in a given household runs Windows. What's the probability that your household has a Windows computer if you're a programmer that don't live with your parents? What if that programmer is an open source contributor. Surely not 90%.