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> Without the culture that tooling much be hard, rather developers are users as well. I don't follow this. Could you elaborate? I think the current culture is
by PartiallyTyped 3y ago
> Without the culture that tooling much be hard, rather developers are users as well.
I don't follow this. Could you elaborate?
I think the current culture is that tooling must be smart, accessible, and very well written, e.g rust (cargo, rustc, clippy, rust-analyzer), go coming with everything, same for gleam. Even zig is a better build system for C programs than most buildsystems for C.
- pjmlp 3y agoI am talking about the C tooling culture, specially when comparing how compilers, linkers and makefiles are exposed, versus the Xerox PARC programming model that was largely adopted by other ecosystems. Think TP, Delphi, VB, .NET, Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Clipper, Eiffel, MacOS AppToolbox, Java,...