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Tigershark wrote:I am really dissapointed in the state of the tools for Arma given the years it has existed and the power it unleashes for mission and mod makers. A proper IDE would go a long way...with such things as a class name reference built in. And what I would give for a out of the box 3d editor.

Allegedly coming next year...
But I'd be happy even to get a proper syntax checker that doesn't require you to fire up the entire Arma stack. I'm used to the idea that you don't have to be physically sitting a specific chunk of hardware to write code, what with us having invented networking back in the 1960s...

And proper code completion....I know they have something...but it is not the elegant kind that for example Xcode has (and I presume Visual Studio has).
A nice function library.....ability to store your own code snippets....nurse...I'll take that morphine now.

Well, vim lets you rig all that stuff up right now (YouCompleteMe is the name of the vim plugin you want), but without ARMA-lint, it's still something you have to be doing at a machine with Arma installed.
Which sounds terribly easy until you remember that all my machines other than my gaming rig are linux based (or the work laptop which is one of these deplorably shiny mac things that aren't that fantastic to actually work on... )

All of which means the process eats time. Which is one of those things we have short supply of

Xcode, my new nemesis...

Why...it's lovely!

Why is it a nemesis?

Ugh. xcode.
/spits

Things like that are why I can't stop thinking IDEs are just laziness.
I'll take vim, a decent debugger (yes, that includes gdb, hush now because you don't know all it can do until you've stepped through code running on a PIC chip attached by a serial cable to a computer in the lab while you're sitting at home with a headcold and hot chocolate wrapped in a duvet), kdiff3 and a terminal, thankyouverymuch.

I think y'all don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

Whilst programming for iOS or OSX might be finicky, I think the IDE itself is quite good.

Tigershark wrote:I think y'all don't know what the fuck you are talking about.

Ha! I wish...

Whilst programming for iOS or OSX might be finicky, I think the IDE itself is quite good.

You know what the problem with a good IDE is?
It's still an IDE... it's like when Comrade Fer washs out the gimp suit at the Dacha. Sure, it's clean now, but it's still not much fun...

Sparks wrote:you don't know all it can do until you've stepped through code running on a PIC chip attached by a serial cable to a computer in the lab while you're sitting at home with a headcold and hot chocolate wrapped in a duvet

Hah, you're not really working until you infect your entire office

Aqarius wrote:Hah, you're not really working until you infect your entire office

Yeah, but you can do that and then go home to your duvet. #BestOfBothWorlds

There is no gimp suit at the Dacha.


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fer wrote:There is no gimp suit at the Dacha.

But... then... what was... oh dear.