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You already have a processor too, and something running directly on that is, in fact, more simple.
by capote 11y ago
You already have a processor too, and something running directly on that is, in fact, more simple.
- recursive 11y agoIt's more simple from the point of view of the processor, I suppose, but that's not a useful metric for me.
- StavrosK 11y agoIs your unit of simplicity really "I already have this installed"? Because then this hello world line I just wrote is more complex than your OS.
- joesb 11y agoFrom the point of view of the user, yes.
- recursive 11y agoMaybe simplicity isn't exactly what I'm talking about, but yes. In fact, I couldn't run your hello world without running my OS. So from a practical point of view, me running your hello world has a dependency on my OS. From that perspective, it's easier for me to run my OS than your hello world.
- StavrosK 11y agoI see. So you have these coreutils installed? Because if not, they're exactly as "simple" as cygwin, which is also not installed.
- recursive 11y agoNo, I don't. I have a vague recollection that cygwin was a huge and confusing monolith, but I haven't looked at it in years. This new javascript thing sounded more straight-forward. It's not really objectively supported. I don't even like javascript.
- umanwizard 11y agoCygwin is pretty simple to install and use. Download an .exe installer, click click click, open the Cygwin prompt shortcut.