Any Windows users here ?

Posted by Marbux
Sep 8, 2017 at 07:16 AM

MadaboutDana wrote:
I would gently disagree on your view of macOS as better for personal
>than business use, Paul, given that I run our business on Macs ...

I agree that OS X can be used for some businesses and apologize for what was a generalization that swept too broadly.

Also, I shouldn’t be misunderstood as liking Windows; in my opinion it’s a sorry excuse for an operating system. But we’ve known at least since U.S. v. Microsoft that there’s a supporting application barrier to adoption for other operating systems.

I’ve developed a real affection for programs that run on multiple operating systems, hence one major reason I prefer NoteCase Pro as an outliner. I’ve begun to extend that logic to multiple-OS programs that embed Lua as their scripting language, since it’s feasible in most cases to write Lua scripts such that they will run on any supported OS. E.g., I’ve written more than 600 scripts that extend NoteCase Pro and all of those scripts will run in NC Pro regardless of the platform NC Pro is running on. So for example, I use Geany as my text editor because it runs on all operating systems NoteCase Pro supports and has a plugin to add Lua support. https://plugins.geany.org/geanylua/geanylua-index.html

I also maintain a web page cataloging programs that embed or are written in Lua, https://sites.google.com/site/marbux/home/where-lua-is-used (it’s overdue for updating).

Best regards,

Paul