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It'll never happen again, but I really loved the way QBasic was an entire self-contained IDE and environment in a box. Trying to jump from there to doing anyth
by thrower123 5y ago
It'll never happen again, but I really loved the way QBasic was an entire self-contained IDE and environment in a box.
Trying to jump from there to doing anything with C++ in the days of mingw and Bloodshed DevC++ and Win32 was... not pleasant.
- ginko 5y agoOn most linux distros you can just start writing C++ with your text editor of choice and call gcc without having to install anything.
- Bootvis 5y agoUntil you want to work with libraries and are forced to fight one or more build systems.
- bitwize 5y agoTrue in Slackware's heyday (and still true of Slackware itself). Ubuntu does not come with compilers preinstalled, and I believe the same is true of Fedora. Debian might, but it always was a technical distro. The popular ones tend to leave out development tools for the sake of not confusing the mythical Average User.
- uglygoblin 5y agoIt's a bit more specific but the Godot game engine is like this and it's a wonderful first time experience. You download a single binary and end up with the scene graph editor, a gdscript editor, and all the other bells and whistles you need to immediately start.