RE: [GD-General] dev environments, trifle and other things...

[Warrick B. <War...@po...>]

I also find it crazy that we don't have better tools to work with,
personally I think the *nix breed who prefer to work that way are totally
stark raving mad (In a nice lets make computers continue to seem obscure
kind of way of course ;).  I want my computer environment to evolve to suit
me not the other way around.

I've spent the past few weeks fighting on and off with the command line
driven source (MKS) control system here and I may well go insane.  What used
to be a simple process (Ok when it didn't bugger up) under Source Safe (Or
even CS RCS with it's nice little plugin for VS that did have funny turns
occasionally) that was nicely integrated into Visual Studio has turned into
a nightmare.  Simple things like checking what files I do actually have
checked out seems far too long winded a process now.

Being human (Although arguably barely sometimes it being Christmas party
season and all) I'm visually stimulated (ooer) and I'd much rather see
things layed out in a more graphical diagramtic way then look at the man
pages for another sodding obscure command switch.  I look at the combined
good points of Visual Studio, Visual Basic and other things and can see a
glimpse of the fact that there is a better way of doing this.

I'll have to take a look at this Cocoa hot chocolate stuff Brian mentions -
I do remember a friend of mine swearing by the NextStep stuff.  I've also
been intending to have a look at C# (Gasp) - I suspect environment wise it's
a merge of Visual Basic & Visual C++?  which has to be at least part of a
step in the right direction (intention wise at least).

On a side note recently I've had to write everything in straight C which I
hadn't done for a long while but I find myself missing C++ badly - I never
thought I'd say that....

Warrick.