What if we could develop .NET programs without any IDE... just Notepad and a heart filled with hope? It'd be hawt that's what!
I've been ruminating on why I feel so much more productive in Ruby land and on how I can bring some of that to the MS development stack. One of the big pain points for me is Visual Studio and all of its project and solution files. At first I thought it was the fact Ruby doesn't compile.. That's nice but not **huge**... Python compiles after all... Then I realized one of the big things Visual Studio (along with R#) helps me do is find my classes and files. I've seen leaning on Visual Studio cause an enormous loss of cohesion across packages which forms a self- reinforcing cycle of needing even more Visual Studio packagement. This is an experiment I've been working with over the past couple research days that was a thought of what could be done to reduce that pain. It's a Ruby script you can run in a folder to compile all c# files and execute them as though they were a set of scripts and modules. It's VERY simplistic and I only consider it a proof of concept but still I'd like to hear some of your thoughts on this. Ideally, I'd like to be able to develop an entire C# application only using this technique. You can get a rough idea of what's going on inside the tests but I did a bad job testing. So ask questions if you got 'em. Anyone else with thoughts on this or other ways of doing truly "Alt" .NET development? :) The git: https://github.com/jcbozonier/IronLove -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Seattle area Alt.Net" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/altnetseattle?hl=en.
