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- The VC compiler is actually really good, especially for Windows code (obviously) - Visual Studio is a great IDE but more importantly it's what MS devs are us
by breckinloggins 14y ago
- The VC compiler is actually really good, especially for Windows code (obviously)
- Visual Studio is a great IDE but more importantly it's what MS devs are used to. It's harder to attract good MS developers if you don't support Visual Studio
- Binary compatibility issues between stuff compiled with gcc/mingw and stuff compiled with VS (??? Someone chime in here if I'm wrong)
- Gcc/mingw setup on Windows is perceived as more complex than installing VS
- jhasse 14y ago>- Binary compatibility issues between stuff compiled with gcc/mingw and stuff compiled with VS (??? Someone chime in here if I'm wrong) If you aren't using C++, everything should work fine. I've been using C binaries from VS and mingw together without problems :)
- excuse-me 14y ago'C' doesn't have name mangling Mixing C++ binaries from different compilers is much trickier