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0 pointstroupo7mo ago0 comments

> use cases like "let me write a small program in nano over SSH" or "let me change one hardcoded variable and recompile the project and never touch its source code again".

1. This is an infinitesimally small use case

2. Often those same programmers somehow are completely fine using C++ or Rust

3. Even more often those same programmers deny the usefulness of IDEs just because they need those use cases once every 10 years or so, and keep using subpar tools

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Permik7mo ago

Bro hasn't been employed at any natsec-level project to even _try_ to suggest the first option.

zbentley7mo ago

C’mon, why don’t you like the authorized secure development workflow? You know, the triple-nested RDP Rube Goldberg machine that connects you to a 15yo desktop environment running on a Pentium III over a dial-up link to the moon (that can only run the IDE that time forgot, most of whose non-obsolete features don’t work because of the eighteen competing antimalware services running).

It’s ATO’d and everything, and it works for all the other contractors. They have no trouble shipping on time, give or take a decade or so; what’s your problem?