Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?

Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by ylyn on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:13AM (#29530224)

> Point 6: I've read this sentence several times but seemingly you opened an executable in a text editor and that somehow broke your build process? Or something? Was it write-locked by the editor?

I can't imagine how you got to that interpretation.

Obviously what OP meant was that they wanted to get out of VS and try developing in Sublime..

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by azinman2 on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:19AM (#29530267)

And in doing so expected Sublime to be an IDE and not a text editor, which means they don’t really understand what. text editor is, what’s in scope, or how it functions.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by vixalien on Sunday December 12, 2021 @03:03PM (#29533072)

I needed to install Android Studio to get the relevant android build tools, when I was done, I didn't touch android studio, I wrote all my code in Sublime and run a command that uses Android Studio's tools without opening the app. Heck, I could even run an emulator without opening the Android Studio GUI which is comparable to VS. It seems like Windows devs are locked to Visual Studio.

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Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated? by Vivtek on Sunday December 12, 2021 @11:51AM (#29531147)

No, in doing so they expected the IDE to continue to function as a build tool even if the programmer is using a text editor that works for them.

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