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by pjmlp 370 days ago
Visual C++ and tools like Live++ have been doing it for years.

Maybe people should occasionally move away from their UNIX and vi ways.

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>Maybe people should occasionally move away from their UNIX and vi ways.

Maybe when something better comes up, but since you never invested one single minute on improving Inferno we have to wait for another Hero ;)

Yes, at a huge cost. That only works on Microsoft platforms.

MSVC++ is a nice compiler, sure, but it's not GCC or Clang. It's very easy to have a great feature set when you purposefully cut down your features to the bare minimum. It's like a high-end restaurant. The menu is concise and small and high quality, but what if I'm allergic to shellfish?

GCC and Clang have completely different goals, and they're much more ambitious. The upside of that is that they work on a lot of different platforms. The downside is that the quality of features may be lower, or some features may be missing.