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Lack of good hardware/laptops. I had a Lenovo X200s for over 4 years and finding a viable replacement is almost impossible. I am saddened by the fact that there are no i7 / 16GB / highDPI with decent keyboard at the price of a 2015 Retina MBP.
I prefer developing with Linux. There are generally more tools available than Mac and Windows. Some of the ones I use are xmonad, tmux, vim (nvim), ag, ycm, clang, gcc, gdb, cmake, make, ninja, perf, valgrind, strace, etc... Compared to Windows, even just having a decent shell with coreutils is huge. If there is something that a tool doesn't already do, I can generally combine other ones to do it. For example, sed ca…
Are you having issues with speed? You can't accelerate Scons or most other Make tools, and CI is still slow when running thousands of tests.
As for testing, I haven't really seen bottlenecks with integration and unit tests. If anything, running continuous integration on Linux should be as fast or faster though. I tend to use googletest where I can.
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The fact that UIs aren't generally scriptable doesn't mean that the dev tools I'm referring to aren't scriptable or otherwise able to be automated. There are a lot of trade-offs that I think Unix-centric devs don't realize, for the simple fact that they don't venture outside of their own ecosystem for various reasons. One of those trade-offs in my opinion is a certain lack of polish that seems to pervade the Unix-dev…
The difference for me is largely flexibility. Windows tools tend to be monolithic, which is okay for certain things, but it's generally difficult to extend. As a developer, modularity is important to me. Even GCC I can't use to build any development tools since it's monolithic. LLVM is extremely modular though and even provides an intuitive API to interface with the AST, which makes building any new tools simpler (yc…
Lack of good hardware/laptops. I had a Lenovo X200s for over 4 years and finding a viable replacement is almost impossible. I am saddened by the fact that there are no i7 / 16GB / highDPI with decent keyboard at the price of a 2015 Retina MBP.