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pjmlp
4y ago
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No wonder FOSS languages are stuck in the pre-historic tooling.
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the_gipsy
4y ago
· 5 in thread
"IDE as tool for everything" is what's prehistoric, at this point.
pjmlp
OP
4y ago
Sure, some people enjoy being stuck with workflows born out of phosphor terminals.
the_gipsy
4y ago
So why don't you program in VR then? Why not generate CI jobs from an ML model?
pjmlp
OP
4y ago
Graphical IDEs are good enough.
Xerox PARC already showed how.
xigoi
4y ago
Do you have any other workflow that allows so much programmability and composability while being lightweight and cross-platform?
pjmlp
OP
4y ago
You mean the "cross platform" as long it is UNIX?
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xigoi
4y ago
· 3 in thread
If “pre-historic” means “doesn't take several minutes to start and require 8GB of RAM”, I guess that's a good thing.
pjmlp
OP
4y ago
I wonder how Turbo Pascal IDE managed to fit into 640 KB....
xigoi
4y ago
Because it wasn't based on bloatware liks Electron. And I guess the developers actually cared about performance because at that time they couldn't just assume that everyone has a powerful machine.
pjmlp
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4y ago
Electron !== IDE.
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