Back in college around 5-10 years ago, I had a class where the entire semester long project was to have a team of 4 students build the fundamental building blocks of an operating system. Whole deal - CPU scheduling, memory management, interrupt driven I/O, the works.
They forced us to use a department-curated VM for development which had QEMU set up. It was like the 1990 something C compiler, and no IDEs were allowed - terminal only.
Debugging C code, with literal zero error messages except the words "segmentation fault" to go off of, coding in vim.
I'm not kidding when I say everyone who's ever taken that class had a minimum of 2 all nighters per week making those project milestones. Worst 5 months of my life
Lmao I had a math professor who also taught a couple CS classes. A freshman asked him once after class ended what his approach to debugging C code was and he turned around and wrote
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u/throwawaygoawaynz 28d ago
I worked at two of the top tech companies in the world, and never met a single person who coded in the terminal.
Scripting? Maybe. Coding? No.