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"Developing on Windows is terrible" I presume you meant "developing SBCL" on Windows is terrible? Windows is a pretty good development platform nowadays with mo

by fsloth 5y ago

"Developing on Windows is terrible" I presume you meant "developing SBCL" on Windows is terrible? Windows is a pretty good development platform nowadays with modern tooling - but it's certainly different than posix environments.

exdsq 5y ago
Add WSL2 and it's pretty much there (if not better because of both worlds) and that's coming form someone who works exclusively nowadays on Mac, ChromeOS, and Linux.
fsloth 5y ago
To clarify my position, my work include maintaining and developing a cross platform native codebase that serves Linux, Windows and macOS, in a global setting. I find each platforms native toolchain good in their own way. Each has it's particular quirks. The thing is that when you learn the quirks on one platform, the other platform has other quirks - hence it likely feels "worse" for a while, when in fact, it's just "different".
jlarocco 5y ago
I don't know about SBCL in particular, I just meant Windows development in general is pretty bad compared to the other platforms. I'm using Visual Studio 2019 and ReSharper at work right now, and it's a slow, bloated mess compared to dev environments I've used on Linux and OSX. Sorry to rant, but I recently started a new job using Windows for the first time in about 10 years, and the slow dev environment is my only pet peeve.
- fsloth 5y ago
  It sounds something is not right. ReSharper occasionally puts everything to a halt. If you office policy allows, try disengaging it. A few versions ago Visual Studio had lots of missing features that ReSharper provided instead, but in 2019 and 2022 the gap is considerably smaller. I am using visual studio daily and 2022 is particularly snappy. Also - In work setting some end point policies enforce anti-virus software that converts the system to an unbearably slow state. If you prefer posix tools for command line use (IMO they are much more ergonomic than powershell) wsl2 works pretty well for grepping and such.

by fsloth 5y ago

exdsq 5y ago

Add WSL2 and it's pretty much there (if not better because of both worlds) and that's coming form someone who works exclusively nowadays on Mac, ChromeOS, and Linux.

fsloth 5y ago

To clarify my position, my work include maintaining and developing a cross platform native codebase that serves Linux, Windows and macOS, in a global setting. I find each platforms native toolchain good in their own way. Each has it's particular quirks. The thing is that when you learn the quirks on one platform, the other platform has other quirks - hence it likely feels "worse" for a while, when in fact, it's just "different".

jlarocco 5y ago

I don't know about SBCL in particular, I just meant Windows development in general is pretty bad compared to the other platforms. I'm using Visual Studio 2019 and ReSharper at work right now, and it's a slow, bloated mess compared to dev environments I've used on Linux and OSX. Sorry to rant, but I recently started a new job using Windows for the first time in about 10 years, and the slow dev environment is my only pet peeve.

fsloth 5y ago
It sounds something is not right. ReSharper occasionally puts everything to a halt. If you office policy allows, try disengaging it. A few versions ago Visual Studio had lots of missing features that ReSharper provided instead, but in 2019 and 2022 the gap is considerably smaller. I am using visual studio daily and 2022 is particularly snappy. Also - In work setting some end point policies enforce anti-virus software that converts the system to an unbearably slow state. If you prefer posix tools for command line use (IMO they are much more ergonomic than powershell) wsl2 works pretty well for grepping and such.