This is probably highly correlated to tech stack. A number of popular programming languages do not behave well on Windows and I make no editorialization about who is at fault there. Even if the language is ostensibly compatible, popular and/or crucial packages within its library ecosystem may not be. Elixir and Ruby are two from my personal experiences, though the latter is referring to c. 2005-2015 or so. Developing in a Unix-y environment is definitely the more well paved road in such cases. It varies between "less documented" to "doesn't work correctly at all" to "won't even compile". Social stigma is sometimes a factor too. Rails' early popularity (and Textmate) probably did as much to help sell MacBooks during a given era as Apple did.
Even though it has a more positive reputation for being cross-platform-capable, I will also observe that the Rust crates who strive to support Windows equitably seem to pull in quite a lot of platform specific code as conditional dependencies. Whether that is because of rampant Unix-isms or POSIX brain worms or whatever, I don't know, but it certainly seems to pose a maintenance/complexity burden that isn't there otherwise.
Even though it has a more positive reputation for being cross-platform-capable, I will also observe that the Rust crates who strive to support Windows equitably seem to pull in quite a lot of platform specific code as conditional dependencies. Whether that is because of rampant Unix-isms or POSIX brain worms or whatever, I don't know, but it certainly seems to pose a maintenance/complexity burden that isn't there otherwise.