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by Deinumite 3644 days ago
I enjoyed watching a few of his videos but because they are all live streams they are obviously not edited so sometimes there are mistakes or sections where not much happens.

My biggest complaint is that he spends a lot of time setting up his dev environment that I found to be super confusing for a newcomer. I am an experienced dev and couldn't understand why he spent so much time mucking around with writing batch files and setting up emacs instead of just encouraging new users to just use Visual Studio where you can click compile and run and the setup takes 5 minutes instead of 2 screencasts.

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Because he is doing it like an experienced dev who prefers to use the right tools for the job, not a quick "click to compile" IDE.