Discussion It's not like riding a bicycle!

[JonnyBGoode]

Getting back into modding, and suddenly discovering I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW TO USE ANY OF THESE TOOLS!

 

[n72.75]

That's definitely true. I'm lucky; I do a lot of programming (not in C++ tho) for my job, so that keeps me sharp.

 

[Urwumpe]

That's definitely true. I'm lucky; I do a lot of programming (not in C++ tho) for my job, so that keeps me sharp.

I did not do any C++ at work since 2013 or so (Only C99 until some years ago). Orbiter is my primary way to keep the skills alive. Especially now, that I am slowly stopping active development at work and more and more shift towards project management.

I once thought that C++ does not see rapid changes and revolutions, but I was pretty wrong so far. CMake changed a lot there, just like VcPkg solved many problems for the windows world that Linux developers already solved with older tools.

 

[Sbb1413]

Getting back into modding, and suddenly discovering I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW TO USE ANY OF THESE TOOLS!

I don't realize why solving such problem is compared to a cycle riding. ?‍

 

[Kyle_E]

I don't realize why solving such problem is compared to a cycle riding. ?‍

There is an expression in English (at least in America, I don't know about anywhere else) that "X is just like riding a bicycle" meaning that "X" is a skill that you never completely forget.

 

[Sbb1413]

Oh, I realised what @JonnyBGoode meant. Add-on development is something that can be easily forgotten. Frankly, scenario editing by using a text editor is like riding a cycle.

 

[n122vu]

In the same situation. I tried to get back into addon/C++ .dll development earlier this year, stripping the old UMMU and UCGO code from the EAS Cortez and just compiling it as-is. I couldn't even get the compiler to work right. I ran out of patience and time, but I'm trying again, well, er, I'm trying to get started trying again....