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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on what you want to do the one does not imply the other. (And some times coding actually is easier on Linux, I had a way better experience compiling my c++ projects there then my friend had on windows)

[–] SpaceNoodle 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's easy to compile things in Windows! First, set up WSL ...

[–] woelkchen 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s easy to compile things in Windows! First, set up WSL …

Yep, echo "Hello World!" works just as well in WSL as under native Linux.

[–] SpaceNoodle 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] woelkchen 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you bashing bash?

No, I'm making fun of anybody who claims that outputting Hello World on Linux is somehow complicated.

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, we were talking about compiling C++ ...

[–] woelkchen 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, we were talking about compiling C++ …

That person said only Eclipse. I can write a bash script in Eclipse. Only naming an IDE is the funny thing about that comment.

[–] SpaceNoodle 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Depending on what you want to do the one does not imply the other. (And some times coding actually is easier on Linux, I had a way better experience compiling my c++ projects there then my friend had on windows)

[–] woelkchen 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for quoting a completely different person.

[–] SpaceNoodle 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's the comment I was initially replying to, champ.

[–] woelkchen 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the topic was set by the person who just said that they failed for two hours under Eclipse to print Hello World.

[–] SpaceNoodle 0 points 1 year ago

And I was replying to the comment about compiling on Linux.