Do you know of any compilers that only requires one or two clicks on the source code to compile? Having to configure it to do it doesn’t count, nor does having to go to a terminal and write a word or two.
Extra points are given if you can give your own view as to why so few compilers have a gui included, or just a send to compiler listing in explorer!
The reason is that I want to be able to send source to my non-programming friends. Some have sparc computers, some have x64 with multiple cores and so on.
Then they would be able to compile the code and then remove it, saving just the binary that is optimized for their computer.
I used to use ‘jikes’, IBM’s java compiler. It had an incremental mode where you just had to hit return and it would compile everything that had changed. So you’d do some coding in vi, save the file, and alt-tab over to the window with jikes in it, and hit return, and alt-tab back to the vi window.
Now I use Eclipse that compiles on the fly. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes it puts ugly red lines all over the code that you haven’t finished writing so you know it’s not supposed to compile.