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Re:CIDLib: C++ Development Environment by jnwatson on Saturday March 09, 2019 @07:06PM (#19349370)
This is a little programming time capsule. Before open source, you had little choice but to build essentially everything yourself.
Re:CIDLib: C++ Development Environment by DeanCIDLib on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:13PM (#19364765)
Well, to be fair, I didn't do it because I had to, I did it because I wanted to. General purpose object frameworks are what I enjoy doing.

The (very complex and large) automation system built on top of it was really just because I needed something practical to do with all of the general purpose code I'd developed. Though that then drove the development of a lot more general purpose code.