> On Jul 30, 2020, at 8:08 AM, Andrew Cobley (Staff) <a.e.cob...@dundee.ac.uk> 
> wrote:
> 
> Apologies, I have not been involved in this process for a few years, but I 
> saw this topic pass by and thought I would like to comment.
> 
> I’m a lecturer in computer science and used C* in a couple of dev classes, 
> some of you may remember we ran a couple of Hackday’s with Datastax.  
> Students would develop projects using C* in order to learn NoSQL databases.  
> Many had to run on their own laptops and usually under windows, which was a 
> pain.
> 
> I’ve since moved to using C* under Docker on Gcloud for teaching which 
> removes most of the pain, once students  get used to using cloud services.
> 
> My point is, for educational purposes there are plenty of other ways of 
> running small dev clusters that are probably more realistic for most uses 
> cases.
> 
> I’d be for removing windows support, but I suspect my use case is one of the 
> more minor ones.

I think hearing “we used to use this but now there are better alternatives” is 
great signal 
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