I am so glad I found a way to compile c++ for personal projects without using MS VS. Time to relieve my machine from this burden :D

Are you aware of gcc's existence?

@RazorSh4rk I became enlightened today. Love to MinGW for making the job easy

Relying on an IDE for compiling is the worst thing ever :/ that's why a lot of people don't advise the user of IDE for beginners

By the way, try devc++ or codeblocks, they are both lightweight, have a bunch of compilers and are actually useful unlike vs

@willol what? To not use an IDE seems to be a way to make me want to kill myself... I do not know what you are talking about in this thread... ☺️

@Hultan70 I'm all for using an IDE for being more productive, but you'll need to be able to compile your projects with the command line! You should be able to work on your project using only nano and the command line (you won't do it obviously, but it means that you understand what you're doing and master the tools you're using)

@willol ok, I am starting to understand what you are talking about now, but I will still never go back to using command line to compile. I am old enough to have been forced to write code in a text editor and compile with command line compilers and I will never go back ☺️

The problem is that vs is basically ununinstallable

@Duckman In visual studio you can build things in several different languages, and for several different platforms. I am sure Microsoft COULD do one big install file for every language and platform, and all other dependencies, but I would not want to be here every day and listen to all the people whining about how VS is uninstallable because it is so huge (ever heared about bloatware in the same sentence as Windows?). And when a dependency has been installed by VS, it can be risky to remove that dependancy when VS is uninstalled, since you might have installed other programs that also uses that dependancy. And also, if you need the disk space, I sugggest that you buy a new hard drive...just saying...

@Hultan70 jeez man, chill 😂

That's still not taking up the fact that it is not uninstallable

@Duckman How about clicking "Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2015 with upgrades" in the control panel/Uninstall a program? I thought you where refering to not everything being uninstalled when uninstalling Visual Studio, but your comment where obviously even more weird than that...:-)

For those whining about long uninstall times for VS...

https://github.com/Microsoft/...

The latest Visual Studio has improved this anyway.

Too bad I installed the not-so-latest!

@Hultan70 that was what I was referring to :)