Battle of the slashes

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No idea when this happened but you can also use forward slashes in Windows. So typing c:/users into the Explorer address bar works.
- You can even mix and match! C:\tmp/file.txt is valid. Very helpful for cross-os compatibility.
  
  Does only windows do this or do Linux and mac work with both slashes too ?
  
  I thought linux was pretty strict with this
- Beat me to it. It works in CMD/PowerShell too. It's easier to just train your muscle memory to always use / regardless of platform
- I use forward slashes in all of my software's paths, so I don't have to fiddle around with it when I'm porting to Linux (in the future, I'll likely go from "dev on Windows, port to Linux" to "dev on Linux, port to Windows).
This is what happens when you have Windows coming out of the CP/M micro operating system family and everybody else is some kind of Unix derivative.
to the top, this post belongs
touch /\0
Dont worry guys, we can deal with this.

Boots up beatsaber
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