Disch wrote:
tokumaru wrote:
I hate that most of them take hundreds of megabytes
You say that as if it were a lot.
It can be when you use many different machines. I don't use as many computers today as I used to in the past, but I like to be able to be able to work on my projects in whatever random PC I find, without having to spend time downloading/installing/configuring applications, and depending on the computer I don't even have the privileges to do that.
So in these cases I benefit a lot from having an entire NES project, including an assembler and a C compiler that will simply run from whatever temporary folder I decompress them to, that fits in an archive smaller than 1MB, which is easy to download, upload and carry everywhere.
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and have to place lots of files in your system folders.
You say that as if it matters. How often do you look in your system folders?
I don't ever look there, but I know that stuff that gets put there usually affects my computer's loading times and overall performance.
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For simple programs that's overkill.
IDEs are not simple by any means. Well... the good ones, anyway.
I meant that if you are making simple programs (converters, table generators, etc) using IDEs might be overkill, not that the IDEs are simple programs. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
Yeah, I absolutely hate bloatware, and will try to avoid it as much as possible. I do like to use tools that make my job easier (at home I use Notepad++ for coding 6502 for example), but I don't like to depend on them, so I make sure I can still just pick any random PC and use crappy old Notepad for the same purpose, without having to worry about what's installed and what's not.
It may seem like a strange scenario for some people, but a while ago I used to have access to a lot of different PCs, like at work, college, family members' places, and by keeping this minimalistic approach I could always squeeze some development time out of busy days.