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What stop schools giving out pre-installed virtual machine images? Most people don't setup their own environment for their first language....
by j16sdiz 3y ago
What stop schools giving out pre-installed virtual machine images?
Most people don't setup their own environment for their first language....
- NavinF 3y agoSure they do. You can tell anyone to "just install IntelliJ" or "just install Xcode" and they'll have a working environment with zero effort. All the popular languages don't require handholding
- Mathnerd314 3y agoI would attribute that to the language/company putting in the effort for an easy install. I am sure it is easy to install Swift on Mac but I was trying to guide my friend through it on Windows and he gave up because it was too complex and the installer didn't work immediately (some library path error).
- NavinF 3y agoSwiftUI and all the other Apple frameworks that allow you to do more than read and write text to a console don't work on Windows. Beginners should just use an IDE. If one isn't available for their language/platform, that's a sign of things to come
- hutzlibu 3y ago"Most people don't setup their own environment for their first language...." Since most people probably try out js as their first language (often without knowing what js is) - setting upt the environment and IDE is as simple as open dev tools ..
- eviks 3y agoHow is this an easier setup vs. asking students to download and run an executable or two?