You can also run the open sourced cloud 9 IDE from a VM and use a browser in windows to access it.
This has the added benefit of being able to distribute the environment amongst windows boxes very easily. - Jacob Groundwater On 2012-10-19, at 7:37 AM, jerome <[email protected]> wrote: > @mscdex: Yeah Windows just for dev, I would deploy to a *nix environment. > Thanks for the tip regarding Visual C++ 2010 Express. > @Bradley Meck: If I make significant progress, I will definitely blog, and > I'll keep it brief. > > On Friday, October 19, 2012 10:32:43 AM UTC-4, mscdex wrote: >> >> On Oct 19, 10:23 am, Jerome Covington <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > I've been on a Mac for years. Am I likely to encounter any pitfalls or >> > gotchas doing node dev on Windows? >> >> From my personal experience, I have seen significant performance >> decreases in node on Windows compared to *nix. However if you just use >> node for development purposes on Windows, you should be fine. >> >> > A buddy of mine reminded me that some of the add ons require a C compiler. >> > What are my options? >> >> Visual C++ 2010 Express is free and is your best bet for now for >> compiling addons. > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
