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draven on June 11, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: What’s to love about C?

In this case (open source projects using C99) they can use mingw.

bitwize on June 11, 2012 [–]

An ironclad rule of platform-specific development: You use the compiler that everyone else is using. On Windows, that means Visual Studio.

JohannL on June 11, 2012 | [–]

I'm really happy for platform-specific development, and I'm gonna let it finish, but cross-platform development is the most cross-platform development of all time.. of all time!

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