> people around me fumble with their Windows [1] machines I pull up a gcc cross compilation chain and begin porting the proprietary "workspace Also the trend t

> people around me fumble with their Windows [1] machines I pull up a gcc cross compilation chain and begin porting the proprietary "workspace Also the trend to "integrate" all that stuff in shiny windows applications makes it increasingly hard to have collaboration with shared repositories and automated builds, because "workspaces"/"Project files" tend to happily mix user-interface configuration, file modifications or code-generation settings. And changes in autogenerated code pop-up in unexpected ways that makes it increasignly hard to re-integrate concurrent development (e.g. by different developers). It's pretty horrible. And sometimes your vendor's compiler isn't GCC but uses a lot of non-gcc extensions which you have to manually rewrite in something that's sane. Or uses ELF, but in a way that contemporary binutils only can link after you've done some ugly tricks with them...