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I don't follow this reasoning. Is it because you don't want to take over the VSCode terminal with a long command? Couldn't you can open multiple tabs, or run in the background, or use screen/tmux, etc.?
Yeah I use my terminal to run other things, as it stays compiling for around 5-6 min. I could open another tab like you mention but Instead I automated all so it only takes 1 alias (ex cc) to compile my shit.
The compilation also requires several inputs and “Key Presses”, so I automated all of that in the Batch file.
All of those inputs would likely be much better built into the ps1 file. PowerShell is meant as a sucessor to vbscript which was meant as a successor to windows batch.
Selecting options? Make them parameters that you just set when calling the script: ./build.ps1 -Arch 64 -CompressSplines
Needing someone to manually confirm something completed? Add a while loop to wait 5 seconds while whatever spawned process is still running.
Etc.
Also, you can have multiple terminals open in VSCode.
You've not listed any requirements that aren't more easily solved with existing features in the tools you've listed. Learn the tools your work expects you to use before you start blaming them for shit.
Or... His hacked system is working, let's not duck with it. 🤣
That's absolutely acceptable. Don't fix what ain't broke.
But please don't publicly post a joke/rant about how your only option to accomplish something was through absurd hacky workarounds, when the issue is that you refused to learn the tools you have.
What we have here is the slightly more tech literate version of printing out a Word Doc so you can re-arrange, remove, and add pages physically before scanning it back in as a PDF to email someone, then complaining about it being so difficult, rather than just using one of the many many print to PDF and PDF editing/splicing tools.