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If vim and make are spooking somebody, they need to turn tail and run the fuck away from C. I love it to death, but it's a frustrating experience from another e
by seabird 3y ago
If vim and make are spooking somebody, they need to turn tail and run the fuck away from C. I love it to death, but it's a frustrating experience from another era. vim and make are the least of your worries when dealing with it.
- flohofwoe 3y ago> but it's a frustrating experience from another era Are you using C99 features? I find the "new" features extremely enjoyable, it feels like a different language compared to C89 or the common C/C++ subset.
- seabird 3y agoI am, but C99 doesn't fix the various sharp corners and gotchas that are littered throughout language. I don't say any of this as a dig at C, but at ~50 years old, it definitely shows its age.
- vidarh 3y agoI've used C since the 1980's, and vim most certainly "spooks" me. C and make does not
- pjmlp 3y agoStarted coding in 1986, used my first UNIX (Xenix) in 1993, the only thing I care about vi, is knowing enough to rescue me when there isn't anything else installed to edit files.
- stjohnswarts 3y agoYep, plenty of really good windows/macos programmers have never touched vi or emacs. I'm not sure why users of those are so elitist. I tend to prefer vim editor keystrokes in my editors but that's just because I got used to it from college and terminal editing.