[9fans] gcc

[Winston Kodogo <kodogo@gmail.com>]

I regret that you regret responding, and hope that you will relent.
It's always refreshing to hear from curmudgeons with quite a few more
clues than oneself.  I'm not sure if I'm the public exactly, but I do
find mk and make too labour-intensive for my tastes.  I'm now an IDE
kind of guy, having started out using Fortran IV on a 300 baud
teletype as a contemporary of Barmy Shoestring, and having moved on to
Microsoft Visual Studio, which, in its 2008 incarnation, the last good
one, I actually liked. So shoot me. But I've also learnt to value the
terseness of the command line, and have been, in many ways, vastly
more productive using tips on this list, and also from "The Unix
Programming Environment". Each to their own - there is no one set of
tools that suits everyone. Xcode increasingly works for me. And how
many of the youth have read Fowler?

> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:43:24 -0700
> From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
> Subject: Re: [9fans] gcc not an option for Plan9
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> I just did a go install, after a clean, of the biggest binary I'm
> working on, using my pokey old mac laptop. It took 0.9 seconds, most
> of which was spent in 6l and not the go tool. It could be faster, but
> it's plenty fast enough.
>
> The public won't use mk or make. If you want to succeed in the world,
> you need to find a more modern way to build software. It's been clear
> for a long time that that is not a relevant criterion for this
> community any more, and although it makes me sad I have moved on.
>
> I regret responding to this thread, and will move on there, too.
>
> -rob
>