Multithreaded I/O in the DMD compiler (DDJ article by Walter)

[Christopher Wright]

Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Daniel Keep wrote:
>> Warning: semi-rant ahead.  Feel free to ignore.  :)
> [...]
>> Windows is a pain in the arse, and there isn't a day that goes by where
>> I don't wish I could get rid of it from my life.  But the fact is that
>> it's STILL better than Linux.
>>
>> Andrei said that Windows is for users, and unix is for programmers.
>> That's fine; I'm a programmer!  But I'm also a user.  I shouldn't have
>> to spend all day to work out how to do something in linux that's trivial
>> in Windows.
> 
> What you don't realize is that you spend all day to work out how to do 
> something in Windows that's trivial in Unix. And that "something" is 
> writing computer programs.

I disagree. While it is easier to write small programs in Unix, 
non-trivial programs are nearly always written with IDEs, and IDEs tend 
to try to take over most of the tasks for which you would typically use 
a command line. Non-trivial programs need semantics-aware refactoring 
rather than simple sed-style replacements.

Still, I think vim + screen makes a pretty good IDE.