On Apr 11, 2013 11:23 AM, "Martti Kühne" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Max DeLiso <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Well it does add an extra layer of abstraction which could be a source of > > bugs. Also that would make contributing significantly more difficult for the > > Windows people. > > > People use windows because they don't know any better. They don't even > want to know any better. Let's write suckless code and then hide it > under three layers of dysfunctional GUI and press F1 for help... I > think not even F1 will help you with your virus-infected, > self-destructive, noob-friendly piece of shit OS. > > That said, I remember good times with windows. Back when I downloaded > and installed $actual_os.
I completely agree that Windows is a legacy OS, but plenty of people are still forced to use it for many legitimate reasons. > > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:17 PM, pancake <[email protected]> wrote: > > definitevly debugging cygwin programs is almost impossible (try it by > > yourself), but anyway.. what's the point of using C++? and well.. i guess > > you know that st depends on X and pty. and windows have none of those > > things? and well. who cares about windows nowadays? > > > > Never did that. Thanks for the heads-up, although I was already under > the impression that on windows nothing at all can be debugged, > because, well, where's the fucking source to anything? > You can actually get symbols for large parts of the internals. The documentation is generally quite good too. And for the undocumented parts you can always reverse. > cheers! > mar77i >
