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0 pointspjmlp3y ago0 comments

No wonder FOSS languages are stuck in the pre-historic tooling.

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If “pre-historic” means “doesn't take several minutes to start and require 8GB of RAM”, I guess that's a good thing.

pjmlpOP3y ago

I wonder how Turbo Pascal IDE managed to fit into 640 KB....

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.

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the_gipsy3y ago

"IDE as tool for everything" is what's prehistoric, at this point.

pjmlpOP3y ago

Sure, some people enjoy being stuck with workflows born out of phosphor terminals.

the_gipsy3y ago

So why don't you program in VR then? Why not generate CI jobs from an ML model?

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xigoi3y ago

Do you have any other workflow that allows so much programmability and composability while being lightweight and cross-platform?

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xigoi3y ago

If “pre-historic” means “doesn't take several minutes to start and require 8GB of RAM”, I guess that's a good thing.

pjmlpOP3y ago

I wonder how Turbo Pascal IDE managed to fit into 640 KB....

xigoi3y 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.

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the_gipsy3y ago

"IDE as tool for everything" is what's prehistoric, at this point.

pjmlpOP3y ago

Sure, some people enjoy being stuck with workflows born out of phosphor terminals.

the_gipsy3y ago

So why don't you program in VR then? Why not generate CI jobs from an ML model?

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xigoi3y ago

Do you have any other workflow that allows so much programmability and composability while being lightweight and cross-platform?

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse