81: Elixir in a Burrito with Quinn and Digit
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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The Worst Hat in the Burrito Code Base
The problem stems from a fundamental philosophical difference in how unit-based systems and Windows systems handle command line arguments. On Windows, programs just get a string representing the string that was passed to the binary. And it's up to the program that is being run to handle the parsing of that string itself. This meant that we were going through three to four different layers of command line parsing on Windows. The end result was by the time the command line string reached our application, it was gibberish. Everybody lost motivation at this point. Good times developing for Windows, I tell you.
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