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paty95 Jun 20, 2024 @ 2:44am
Programming and playing on the PC?
Can I program on my PC with the Anacando/Python program? I once read that Steam and programming on a PC is not good.
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x90NOP Jun 20, 2024 @ 3:08am 
Yes, programming and gaming are not mutually exclusive. You might not want to compile large programs like Firefox while gaming for performance reasons, but Python is an interpreted language so you won't need to compile it anyway.
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matt Jun 20, 2024 @ 11:49am 
If you're going to do several complex things at once, it helps to have extra cores and RAM.
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nullable Jun 20, 2024 @ 12:15pm 
Originally posted by paty95:
Can I program on my PC with the Anacando/Python program? I once read that Steam and programming on a PC is not good.

Sounds like some pseudo-intellectual or purist nonsense to me. I've been doing all kinds of programming on the same PC as Steam for twenty years. PHP, Javascript, Perl, Java, C# and I've run Apache on my local system as well for web dev purposes.

I could poll all the other developers on my team and I think they'd all look at me like "why are you asking a stupid question?" I've never had a co-worker, peer, college instructor or class mate ever suggest such a thing.

It's not like programming is some magic thing that interferes with other programs. Most IDE's are just programs themselves, really fancy text editors with a compiler or interpreter. They're not out to sabotage Steam, game launchers in general, or games. And the same is true the other way around.
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