Oookaaaayyyy....Originally Posted by loopshot
What do you mean, so our brains can finally relax? What about Emacs doesn't let the brain relax?
GCC is a compiler, not a screen, by the way. Just so you know.
There are 10 types of people in this world, those who cringed when reading the beginning of this sentence and those who salivated to how superior they are for understanding something as simple as binary.
As much as you guys attempt to live in your own reality, the true reality is that MS is and will be king for a long time. Do yourself a favor and use their tools, especially when they make them available for free.
Really great for DirectX programming...
hmm, I guess you don't look into the linux programming forum here then.
with the headers for directx, you can program in linux using directx, you just have to test on windows.
du-oh, linux does allow for cross platform compiling even, as long as you have the sources for the libs needed.
I could build an app on linux to run on windows, if the sources were not coded to be linux only.
so yup, linux is the ultimate ide, and can be used for directx programming.
it's an open source project originating in the linux world. Those are in an eternal beta state (once they get out of alpha state after 100 release candidates of beta 1 after a decade or so).
no, but why wouldn't you want to get rid of that dinosaur?
and especially if you ever want to make a living creating desktop software as a professional.
For Unix based background stuff you will get by with gcc (but NOT DevC, learn VI instead), for professional C++ based client development MSVC is where the money is (in fact I've never seen a single professional organisation use DevC, it's purely a hobby tool).
Borland and Intel have a following as well, but aren't available free of charge (Borland is, but only a 6 year old commandline compiler).
