On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 05:49:45 +0000 pops via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> Talks about switching from windows to Linux. There are > positives, but the debugging is not one of them. *nix cultire and windows culture are very different. when "switcher" tries to use his windows habits in *nix world, he found himself frustrated by "inconvenient tools" and such. the same is true for *nix guy trying windows. i can say that visual studio suxalot. it's one of the worst things i ever used in my life. but you know why? 'cause it's doing everything not in the way i used to. for windows folks "integration" is "having everything in one big app". for *nix folks "integration" is "having alot of reusable parts that can be combined to create any necessary tool". gdb is such part. using that part alone can be painful. that's why *nix folks don't like IDEs. they have their vim/emacs, and just extending that to get what they need. so they looking at visual studio, for example, and see very inflexible tool: it doesn't even have built-in scripting language, which is the key component of "integration" as *nix folks see it! *nix is not windows. windows is not *nix. they are two different cultures. so when you saying that "*nix debugger expirience reminds me of stone age", most *nix folks immediately thinks: "ah, another dumb switcher who cannot understand that not everything in the world is windows". please, don't be one of that dumbs.
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