OT: on IDEs and code writing on steroids

[Daniel Keep]

Jussi Jumppanen wrote:
> BCS Wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone ever tried building a c# project without an IDE? 
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> I don't even know if it can be done. 
> 
> It is actually very easy to do:
> 
>   http://www.zeusedit.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2518

I look at that, and all I can say is: "if that's easy, then what's this?"

> rebuild MyProgram

I will give you this, though: D's toolchain could use improvement in
more complex builds.  But it's still a hell of a lot simpler than
anything C#'s toolchain can do.

> ...
> 
> If you use the MsBuild approach the amount of XML that is needed to 
> create a project/solution is much smaller and in general the XML is 
> fairly trivial.  

If it's trivial, why does it need a tutorial? :P

  -- Daniel