nixCraft 🐧Oct 18
Anti bloat IDEs. The good old days when you didn't need an internet connection, an API key/LLM subscription to write more bloat. People still built awesome games, apps, and solved real life scientific problems.
Show threadHalla Rempt

@nixCraft I remember those days... Not just the Borland IDE's, but Lightning Forth on the ZX Spectrum, or Beta Basic. But also the early iterations of Qt Creator, much later on... Which were much more pared down compared to the then- Borland and Microsoft IDE's. All Java IDE's have always been ew, kdevelop started sprawling years ago... And these days, I still use Qt Creator, but it's earning curses.

I also coded using Nedit or XEmacs, and could do tht again.

Oct 18 at 5:07pmWeb
Show threadHalla RemptOct 18
@nixCraft What I will never, ever do again is code in a line editor, or code without syntax highlighting.
Show threadnixCraft 🐧Oct 18
@halla ah yesthe ed the original unix editor. there is even a book for it by @mwl
Show threadYrjänä Rankka 🌻Oct 18
@halla @nixCraft I cut my teeth writing C with ex on a TRaSh-80 model 16 running Xenix. Got the (mental) scars to show for it. I miss neither the OS nor the editor.