Re: environment productivity (was: Re: Any tips?)
Balog Pal <pasa@lib.hu> wrote:
On 3/6/2013 6:25 PM, James Kanze wrote:
I don't know. I use Visual Studios 2012 (at present) under
Windows, because that's my employers standard; I've always used
vim, bash and makefiles under Unix. And the vim, bash and
makefiles environment is far more productive than the Visual
Studios environment.
Could you elaborate please? What makes the listed things more
productive? (Or did you meant it for yourself only based on familiar
ground, not in general?)
One thing about Unix, especially modern Linux distros, is that it has
been kind of designed for development, unlike Windows, which has been
designed as a graphical user interface, with little regard to anything
else.
I like in Linux, for example, that if I need a common third-party
library that's not already in my system, I can install it with a couple
of mouse clicks (or, alternatively, with a shell command), and it becomes
immediately available to my program. I don't need to search it, manually
download it, configure it, install it, tell the compiler where to find
it... A couple of mouse clicks, and that's it.
(To be fair, it's not the case with every single library in existence.
Only with those that can be found in one of the distro's repositories.
However, the vast majority of common libraries tend to be there.)
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