Recent content by ghostdev

Honestly, starting with Windows is freaking hard, nothing is installed, there's no package manager, none of the tools developers use are easy to get, etc. As an example, consider explaining the steps required to compile SDL (which require getting DirectX, Windows SDK, and so on) on windows...

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Vim... Ok back to topic. Note that the editor (or IDE) and compiler are different things. For Windows, you'll be compiling with MSVC. Just search for Visual Studio Express and be done with it. It's free and for windows you can't get more beginner friendly than Visual Studio with all its...

Hi guys, creeped around this forum for a couple of years from time to time. Signed up now under a obviously lame username I don't use elsewhere but I can say that I'm a software engineer that's been at it for 20 years.

I have an account thats a couple of years old, gave up on that rather quickly as I can get paid proper money for technical writing through other sources. PM me if interested I suppose.