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• Post #3939966

  It is if there's a binary provided by the project and someone has submitted it to scoop/chocolatey. Unlike Linux, the package managers don't do builds themselves, they just redistribute existing binaries. And for dev tools, there's a huge number of options both for a C compiler and for make. Picking the right one is a major difficulty for the average Windows user.

• Post #309562

  I'm looking for some guidelines on how to write simple single-page webapps. No frameworks, node.js, or build steps, just HTML, CSS, Javascript. Until now, I've been dumping everything in one handwritten .html file. But it's getting unwieldy, and I don't know how best to structure things for maintainability, while still avoiding the "flavour of the month" web frameworks. Does anyone have any good pointers, before I start reinventing the wheel?

• Post #309561

  I've been hovering around the edges of the Javascript world. But I think I need to go in deeper. I want to write small library. Not worried about distributing it (it'll end up copied into a webpage), but I want to do testing, executable scripts to exercise the code, etc. So I need stuff like pytest for Javascript, and a standalone runtime to execute .js files. I assume I need node.js. Where's a good place to learn just enough for "scripting" usage, not g...