Hey my programming friends, I have a question. My daughter is taking a C class in college and is using CLion to write her stuff. One of the comments her professor keeps saying is “remember to work in a Unix environment.”
I’ve always used an IDE when I program so I’m not sure what that means. Anyone able to help?
@kylewritescode You should be able to work any ANY environment. I've written code in with just ed before - it is a terrible choice, but it was the only hammer I had available. I've written C on OS/2 (showing my age), MacOS, windows, and several flavors of unix. I know others who have done so on mainframe systems. Some were clearly worse than others, but I got the job done. Do not lock yourself into any one environment!
You do not know what you will do after college so you need to be flexible enough to adjust. That means you should only write standard portable code that runs on any machine where possible. where it isn't possible (mostly user interface classes, but also database) you should use several different machines so that you don't get locked into how one ecosystem does things.
In short, I don't know what your professor means, but I default to assuming they are doing students a disservice.
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