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Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison

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467 points mraniki | 9 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.62s | source | bottom
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phkahler ◴[31 Mar 25 13:30 UTC] No.43534852[source]▶
Here is a real coding problem that I might be willing to make a cash-prize contest for. We'd need to nail down some rules. I'd be shocked if any LLM can do this:

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/1414

Make a GTK 4 version of Solvespace. We have a single C++ file for each platform - Windows, Mac, and Linux-GTK3. There is also a QT version on an unmerged branch for reference. The GTK3 file is under 2KLOC. You do not need to create a new version, just rewrite the GTK3 Linux version to GTK4. You may either ask it to port what's there or create the new one from scratch.

If you want to do this for free to prove how great the AI is, please document the entire session. Heck make a YouTube video of it. The final test is weather I accept the PR or not - and I WANT this ticket done.

I'm not going to hold my breath.

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1. ramesh31 ◴[31 Mar 25 14:09 UTC] No.43535261[source]▶
You guys really need a Docker build. This dependency chain with submodules is a nightmare.
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2. semi-extrinsic ◴[31 Mar 25 17:01 UTC] No.43537214[source]▶
Alternative perspective: you kids with your Docker builds need to roll up your sleeves and learn how to actually compile a semi-complicated project if you expect to be able to contribute back to said project.
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3. disgruntledphd2 ◴[31 Mar 25 18:03 UTC] No.43537868[source]▶
I can see both perspectives! But honestly, making a project easier to build is almost always a good use of time if you'd like new people to contribute.
4. Philpax ◴[31 Mar 25 18:56 UTC] No.43538453[source]▶
If your project is hard to build, that's your problem, not mine. I'll simply spend my time working on projects that respect it.
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5. phkahler ◴[31 Mar 25 19:22 UTC] No.43538740[source]▶
I'm a hater of complexity and build systems in general. Following the instructions for building solvespace on Linux worked for me out of the box with zero issues and is not difficult. Just copy some commands:

https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace?tab=readme-ov-file#...

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7. ramesh31 ◴[31 Mar 25 20:12 UTC] No.43539348[source]▶
>"Alternative perspective: you kids with your Docker builds need to roll up your sleeves and learn how to actually compile a semi-complicated project if you expect to be able to contribute back to said project."

Well, that attitude is probably why the issue has been open for 2 years.

8. ramesh31 ◴[31 Mar 25 20:14 UTC] No.43539372[source]▶
>I'm a hater of complexity and build systems in general.

But you already have a complex cmake build system in place. Adding a standard Docker image with all the deps for devs to compile on would do nothing but make contributing easier, and would not affect your CI/CD/testing pipeline at all. I followed the readme and spent half an hour trying to get this to build for MacOS before giving up.

If building your project for all supported environments requires anything more than a single one-line command, you're doing it wrong.

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9. jcheng ◴[02 Apr 25 00:20 UTC] No.43552607{3}[source]▶
I'm sympathetic in general, but in this case:

"You will need git, XCode tools, CMake and libomp. Git, CMake and libomp can be installed via Homebrew"

That really doesn't seem like much. Was there more to it than this?

Edit: I tried it myself and the cmake configure failed until I ran `brew link --force libomp`, after which it could start to build, but then failed again at:

    [ 55%] Building CXX object src/CMakeFiles/solvespace-core.dir/bsp.cpp.o
    c++: error: unknown argument: '-Xclang -fopenmp'