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> ... difficult to write simple things... and > Once upon a time, one could download visual studio, don't seem to agree very well. Visual Studio is a behemot
by einpoklum 5y ago
> ... difficult to write simple things...
and
> Once upon a time, one could download visual studio,
don't seem to agree very well. Visual Studio is a behemoth and usually results in stuff that's non-standard, non-portable and with lots of dependencies.
- layer8 5y agoThat certainly wasn’t the case with Visual Studio VB6 (or earlier) that the GP alluded to.
- dan-robertson 5y agoVisual studio won at the zero-to-interactive-program metric. People who have never programmed are not going to care so much about portability as they are about not getting stuck trying to figure out how to install/make things work properly on their systems. The modern ‘getting started’ choice is often python which doesn’t give you such an easy path to interactivity and has its own portability problems.