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childintimetoday at 7:02 AM1 replyview on HN

So funny to see all the cmake instructions. Really makes you want to go back in time. Turbo C or Pascal, hit F9 and you're up and running.

It does showcase our incompetence. In this age we should be able to point to some online compiler and run it. Or download it and run it on a folder. That should be the extent of our involvement with tools. But apparently they are not tools, but rituals we insist on.


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rbanffytoday at 9:42 AM

Compiling software in modern unix systems used to be a solved problem: “./configure && make && make install” should always be the gold standard.

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