Re: OT: Windows (Was: Re: Open Source does not mean easily re-compile-able)

On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 08:31:05 -0300
Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> gabbled:

Muttley@dastardlyhq.com writes:

and include paths which were buried 2 or 3 levels down in some sub menu not
to mention all the "project" BS which forced a certain structure on to your
code filesystem layout which I didn't particularly want. Also the fact that
console and GUI apps require a totally different project setup and boiler

plate

code from the start is just mind boggling.

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They always try to make things pretty and easy to use, but you end up
with that.  I think the only way to tolerate that is to be born and
raised in such thing.  Modularization is likely the most important thing
in programming and it's hard to minimally praise Microsoft on
modularization.  For instance, is there any Windows software that
handles a TCP connection in an accept-fork-exec fashion?

Win32 can't do fork so thats a no. Also IIRC sockets in windows arn't a
simple file descriptor and can't be multiplexed, at least not with normal
file descriptors so select() and poll() are essentially useless so IIRC you
have to spawn a thread or use windows message or some such overcomplicated
nonsense to wait on them. Hopeless.