Oh, my comment was more that compiling C/C++ apps on any platform is shit. Windows may be the worst to compile on, but Linux is only marginally better.

Rust is amazing though.

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[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 days ago

Okay that's fair. I fricked around with some C++ numerics BLAS header library (I think it was Eigen) on Linux before that was complicated and annoying too. The ARM Fast Models simulator was also a pain. Maybe I just don't like C++ development now that I think about it.

C mostly worked okay for me though.

[–] FuckBigTech347@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 days ago

That's only been my experience with software that depends on many different libraries. And it's extra painful when you find out that it needs hyper specific versions of libraries that are older than the ones you have already installed. Rust is only painless because it just downloads all the right dependencies.

[–] msage@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Gentoo is the best platform for this.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

NixOS. Gentoo gets into trouble when you need multiple versions of the same library at the same time. Also while the infrastructure supports it it's annoying that gentoo doesn't provide pre-built binaries, like yes some people might want to have reason to build their own bash but I think I'll be fine with a standard build. NixOS? If you install something usually it's going to be pre-built. Change a couple of configuration flags? May or may not be pre-built. You want to apply a custom patch? It's going to seamlessly build from source.

[–] gabelstapler@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

I remember that Gentoo recently introduced binary packages, however I didn't really look into it, as I changed away from Gentoo. (Looking at you Spidermonkey, llvm etc.)

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 17 points 1 week ago

compiling C/C++ apps on any platform is shit

I'm starting to think the platforms aren't the problem.