[OT] Which IDE / Editor do you use?

[deadalnix]

On Saturday, 14 September 2013 at 05:54:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 15:28:03 -0700
> "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
>> 
>> On Windows, when
>> installing stuff I used to always get messages like "this 
>> installer
>> wants to overwrite the file C:\\windows\system\asdf1234.dll, 
>> proceed
>> (y/n)?" -- which totally freaks me out.
>
> I use windows basically every day, and I haven't seen that 
> happen since
> the 90's.
>

1

>> 
>> Building from source, OTOH, tends to work pretty well, if you 
>> can get
>> the thing to compile at all. (Thanks to apt-get, this is 
>> relatively
>> painless nowadays, once you figure out which libraries are 
>> needed...
>
> That last part is the real problem though. Typing "wget
> http://blahblah && unzip blahblah && cd blahblah && ./configure 
> && make
> && make install" may be easy(-ish), but not when you're 
> collecting all
> the libs (or worse: non-lib dependencies, which then leads you 
> into
> recursion), and the right versions of all, until the
> sllloooowwww ./configure or make process finally quits bitching 
> about
> shit.
>

2

2 is just as true as 1.