It seems that virtual environments are becoming almost mandatory in more and more areas of delopment.

In web development we see more and more people using Virtual Machines or Docker.

I'm developing on Windows but a lot of production environments and build environments are running Linux.
And then it's just a super practical thing to be able to replicate a Linux environment on my machine.
It eliminates a lot of problems.

Similarly it's basically not worth it to try to run Ruby on Rails in a Windows environment.
But with a bit of setup. it's really not that difficult to setup a Linux environment in a container, so that you can keep using your favorite tools on Windows.