On 13/02/2021 11:17, Joe wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 09:57:25 +0000
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot  wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 08:49:33 +0000
>> Joe  wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, I wondered why anyone would actually write code on an RPi.
>>> Anyone who really wants to use VS rather than, say, emacs, will
>>> surely want to use the real thing on its native Windows, and
>>> cross-compile.
>>>
>>> The Pi4 is now fairly powerful, but that's in comparison to phones
>>> and earlier Pis, not compared to a recent workstation or expensive
>>> laptop.
>>
>>  Compared to most of the machines I've developed software on
>> the Pi4 is a supercomputer! It makes the finest workstation ever
>> produced by Sun, Apollo or even SGI look like a toy.
>
>> It is a sad
>> testimony to bloat that you find it inadequate to run an IDE.
>>
>
> I didn't say that. Given a choice of development environments, I would
> not expect the PI, even a 4, to be preferred.
>
> Not that I've done any ARM coding for more than forty years.
>

ARM is only about 30 years old?

Having said that my Arm code looks remarkably similar to my x64 code, I
try not to let a different OS or CPU get in the way of my uniformity. I
let other people to worry about that.

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