Re:Microsoft Is Putting Ads on the Mail App in Windows 10
by inetknght on Friday November 16, 2018 @02:35PM
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> Compiling most things is decidedly nontrivial.
I've spent the past five years building a lot of things from source. I agree that there are definitely a lot of things that it's nontrivial for. However, I've found that the hardest part is satisfying dependencies. Once dependencies are satisfied, building is usually really easy. And the software that isn't easy to build after satisfying dependencies is usually not worth building in the first place.
Of course, that's just my experience as a C++ developer.
I've spent the past five years building a lot of things from source. I agree that there are definitely a lot of things that it's nontrivial for. However, I've found that the hardest part is satisfying dependencies. Once dependencies are satisfied, building is usually really easy. And the software that isn't easy to build after satisfying dependencies is usually not worth building in the first place.
Of course, that's just my experience as a C++ developer.