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> want to compile 50kb C++ console app on windows
> 6 GB MSVC installation
"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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Hm. I've always found it harder to compile stuff on Windows.
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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Okay that's fair. I fricked around with some C++ numerics BLAS header library (I think it was Eigen) on Linux before that was complicated and annoying too. The ARM Fast Models simulator was also a pain. Maybe I just don't like C++ development now that I think about it.
C mostly worked okay for me though.
That's only been my experience with software that depends on many different libraries. And it's extra painful when you find out that it needs hyper specific versions of libraries that are older than the ones you have already installed. Rust is only painless because it just downloads all the right dependencies.
Gentoo is the best platform for this.
I'm starting to think the platforms aren't the problem.
I keep seeing complaints from non JavaScript developers about their IDE not handling millions of files in a folder properly