I am confused. My point was that if engineers target Windows at all, they ought to do it properly, but you retorted with 'I don't target Windows'. Okay, well and good, then my advice isn't for you and developers like you.
Then again, you said 'don't expect all engineers to write their software specifically to cater for it', seemingly ignoring my and essentially every parent commenter's plea for developers targeting non-Linux platforms to be good citizens on that platform, and adopt platform conventions. If you're not writing software for Windows, then sure, no need to think about Windows. If you are, or you are going to, then this platform convention business needs to happen and needs to be done correctly, whatever your thoughts on Windows, or, in the thread's case, macOS, where application data should go in `~/Library/Application\ Support` and not dot-dirs in $HOME.
The conversation digressed into cherry-picking my explanation of 'hidden file'. I'm not sure the troll epithet is fair.
Then again, you said 'don't expect all engineers to write their software specifically to cater for it', seemingly ignoring my and essentially every parent commenter's plea for developers targeting non-Linux platforms to be good citizens on that platform, and adopt platform conventions. If you're not writing software for Windows, then sure, no need to think about Windows. If you are, or you are going to, then this platform convention business needs to happen and needs to be done correctly, whatever your thoughts on Windows, or, in the thread's case, macOS, where application data should go in `~/Library/Application\ Support` and not dot-dirs in $HOME.
The conversation digressed into cherry-picking my explanation of 'hidden file'. I'm not sure the troll epithet is fair.