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I think it's worse. I'm not going to say it's pretty bad, but it's not quite up to par with Macintosh. - You get three clipboards in OS X. Windows gives you
by arh68 8y ago
I think it's worse. I'm not going to say it's pretty bad, but it's not quite up to par with Macintosh.
- You get three clipboards in OS X. Windows gives you 1
- all of the UNIX utilities work (find, grep, xargs, they're all there), all the syscalls work. Because it really is UNIX
- readline shortcuts are available everywhere out of the box. Windows confines me to Cygwin and Emacs
- Cygwin is okay ($PATH versus %PATH% annoys me), but it's not even close to Homebrew
- Visual Studio is a disaster most of the time I use it. YMMV
- a lot of stuff does not run on Windows (most memorably, Swift) whereas almost everything runs on Debian and most things run on OS X
I have a Windows laptop and I've resorted to running Debian on VMware and ssh'ing in with Putty/Xming. I'm surrounded by programmers who openly mock OS X ("you can't develop on a mac!") and tend to stick to Microsoft Approved Software Component Framework -type stuff.
To be fair, I haven't tried WSL. I tried to install Docker, but I was told my top-o'-the-line PC needed another $140 to play that game. Crappy DLC is all it is to me.
- aetherspawn 8y agoI run Visual Studio on my Mac and full proper VS Ultimate on Windows and both are fine. For C++ it works well.. IMO a lot better than XCode IDE, Code::Blocks, Eclipse or any other out-of-box that I’ve tried. Interested to know why you say that VS is a disaster?
- arh68 8y agoI'm doing C#. It's better than Eclipse, sure, but the gold standard imo is IntelliJ. - I can hit C-F and count to 2 before Find in All Files opens - "9 build errors. Build successful" [0] - random pain points [1] - intellisense is often not what I want (though sometimes it is) so I alternate between Esc & Tab - you can't make this stuff up [2] Maybe I just need to reinstall. The window/panel layout is great, I will say. It's easy to use. It's familiar for a lot of people. [0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17703004/visual-studio-displaying-errors-even-if-projects-build https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17703004/visual-studio-d... [1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24468370/linker-cannot-open-file-nafxcwd-lib https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24468370/linker-cannot-o... [2] https://www.google.com/search?q=visual+studio+has+stopped+working https://www.google.com/search?q=visual+studio+has+stopped+wo...