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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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I'm starting to think the platforms aren't the problem.
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.
Gentoo is the best platform for this.
NixOS. Gentoo gets into trouble when you need multiple versions of the same library at the same time. Also while the infrastructure supports it it's annoying that gentoo doesn't provide pre-built binaries, like yes some people might want to have reason to build their own bash but I think I'll be fine with a standard build. NixOS? If you install something usually it's going to be pre-built. Change a couple of configuration flags? May or may not be pre-built. You want to apply a custom patch? It's going to seamlessly build from source.
I remember that Gentoo recently introduced binary packages, however I didn't really look into it, as I changed away from Gentoo. (Looking at you Spidermonkey, llvm etc.)
I keep seeing complaints from non JavaScript developers about their IDE not handling millions of files in a folder properly