About a year ago, I had gotten fed up with what felt like overlyb strict context requirements basically giving me to abandon years of work and thought I'd try my hand at C++ again.

I wanted to do this on Linux, because I my main laptop is a Linux machine after my children confiscated my Windows laptop to play Minecraft with the only decent GPU in the house.

And I just couldn't get past the tooling. I could not get through to anything that felt like a build setup that I'd be able to replicate in my own.

On Windows, using Visual Studio, it's not that bad. It's a little annoying compared to a .NET project, and there are a lot more settings to worry about, but at the end of the day VS makes the two but very different from each other.

I actually didn't understand that until I tried to write C++ on Linux. I thought C++ on Windows was worlds different than C#. But now I've seen the light.

I honestly don't know how people do development with on Linux. Make, Cmake, all of that stuff, is so bad.

IDK, maybe someone will come along and tell me, "oh, no, do this and you'll have no problems". I hope so. But without that, what a disgusting waste of time C and C++ is on Linux.