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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (2 children)

> want to compile 50kb C++ console app on windows

> 6 GB MSVC installation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

I keep seeing complaints from non JavaScript developers about their IDE not handling millions of files in a folder properly

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

"It's so easy to compile C/C++ apps on Linux"

"Just run make install"

"If it doesn't work, fuck you, it worked on my machine"

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Hm. I've always found it harder to compile stuff on Windows.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, my comment was more that compiling C/C++ apps on any platform is shit. Windows may be the worst to compile on, but Linux is only marginally better.

Rust is amazing though.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

compiling C/C++ apps on any platform is shit

I'm starting to think the platforms aren't the problem.