Comment by piker
1 day ago
That's a fair take at surface level, but building a cross-platform application does allow for a broader class of contributors who can also dogfood the product.
I'll have to do another write-up about it sometime, but a lot of Tritium's automated tests are written in docx files. So building for Linux as an afterthought allows an employee to develop from their preferred platform (if it's Linux) while still getting the full experience. Also there is something quite informing about discovering differences between platforms that help you to better understand the capabilities of each.
I also do believe one day we'll see, e.g., crypto startups' lawyers using Linux. And they'll be happy Tritium customers :)
If your target customers care about linux and rust, you have probably over segmented the market.
Yeah, that's true - they really don't. But it helps with the DDQs when you can tell their Infosec people that it's a typesafe language. In the end it's another bullet point but not much more. It's great to be able to run it on Linux and develop in Rust though.