Over at The New Stack is a brief but entertaining history of the editor vi and Vim.
"The editor was optimized so that you could edit and feel productive when it was painting slower than you could think. Now that computers are so much faster than you can think, nobody understands this anymore," Joy said. "It was a world that is now extinct. People don't know that vi was written for a world that doesn't exist anymore."
(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday August 23 2018, @02:31PM (3 children)
What you want is TDD. I do it in C with bash, vim and gnu make. IDEs are bloated, buggy, slow, restrictive and yet another pile of garbage to be nursed.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 23 2018, @05:04PM (2 children)
Read The Fine Parent where I made crystal-clear that Open Source hate for Integrated Development Environments is the result of Visual Studio and not at all Metroworks, Think nor Symantec.
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(Score: 2) by turgid on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:29PM (1 child)
Every IDE I've ever tried has left me longing for the command line, and simple but powerful scriptable tools. The point I was trying to make is that you can go much faster and with fewer bugs if you do it simpler.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday August 23 2018, @06:57PM
Whether or not you script, Xcode is quite a lot easier than Makefiles or Autoconfg to set up even for multi-target projects each of which has lots of sources.
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