Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 05:21:20 08/10/04
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On August 10, 2004 at 08:04:23, martin fierz wrote: [snip] >the main two killer features about VC++ for me are i) the optimizing compiler >which is better than gcc Well, there's also the compiler of Intel, which reportely produces better (as in faster) code than gcc, although gcc seems to have improved much lately. (or so, I've heard :) A possibility could be to just develop under Linux but deploy under Windows. But that's probably only an option when having two computers, as you prolly don't want to dual-boot all the time. >ii) the debugging process is very nice, you see >where you are in the program, you can look at all variables etc. I don't have too much experience with debuggers (I'm used to the printf-way of doing things, but I upgraded to cout lately ;) But graphical debuggers within Anjuta/KDevelop are there. (not sure about Eclipse with CDT-Plugin) Whether they're comparable to VC++, I don't know. (anyone?) >the third, and perhaps most >important killer feature is that i pop one (or multiple) CDs in my drive, and >after some minutes it's installed. i am past the age where messing around with >my computer was a pleasure for me :-) Well, things like RedHat (or whatever its name is today) install pretty much out-of-the-box. I have to say though, that the most important requirement for someone to migrate to Linux is to be willing to spend some time with problems, which _will_ show up. Afterall it's a new OS, just as Windows was back then. >i have the feeling that with linux, you would have to know more than with >window$ to get such a nice environment up and running in very little time?! As I've said above, installing RedHat (or Fedora-something) is a trivial task and comes with everything a developers would want at the beginning. (Gnome, KDE, Kdevelop, compiler etc installed) I suggest people interested in Linux to check something like Knoppix (http://www.knoppix.org/) first for a day or two to get an idea of Linux and see whether it *could* be something for them. No installation required as it boots off the CD. Even dev-tools like kdevelop are included. It's not that fast though, since it runs from CD. But again: if you're not willing to invest some time, stay with Windows. HTH Sargon
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