> The title of this article had me do a double-take: C and C++ development on Windows is great. No sanity is needed.
we certainly have a different opinion on what "great" means. It takes less time to rebuild my whole toolchain from scratch on Linux (~15 minutes) than it takes to MSVC to download those friggin debug symbols it seems to require whenever I have to debug something (I sometimes have to wait 30-40 minutes and I'm on friggin 2GB fiber ! and that's seemingly every time I have to do something with that wretched MSVC !)
Thankfully now the clang / lld / libc++ / lldb ... toolchain works pretty well on Windows and allows a lot more sanity but still, it's pretty slow compared to Linux.
we certainly have a different opinion on what "great" means. It takes less time to rebuild my whole toolchain from scratch on Linux (~15 minutes) than it takes to MSVC to download those friggin debug symbols it seems to require whenever I have to debug something (I sometimes have to wait 30-40 minutes and I'm on friggin 2GB fiber ! and that's seemingly every time I have to do something with that wretched MSVC !)
Thankfully now the clang / lld / libc++ / lldb ... toolchain works pretty well on Windows and allows a lot more sanity but still, it's pretty slow compared to Linux.