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posted by martyb on Wednesday July 17 2019, @10:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the hump-day-relief dept.

Check out the new MSPaintIDE on GitHub.

A video of it demonstrates creating a simple "hello world" type application. About one minute later in the video, you can see how easy it is to create a small GUI application that pops up a simple dialog box.

MS Paint brings unique advantages as a source code editor for Java. You can erase source code you no longer want. You can re-arrange source code. Correct mistakes. Etc.

Then the IDE (integrated development environment) can then OCR your code, update your project tree, compile, and produce a completed executable build. Try doing that with a stupid ordinary plain ol' text editor!


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  • (Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday July 17 2019, @10:50PM (11 children)

    by looorg (578) on Wednesday July 17 2019, @10:50PM (#868267)

    I'm not sure if this is the funniest or stupidest thing I see codewise in a long while. So he is typing code as text into images using MSPaint and then having some special IDE that reads said code via OCR and compile and execute said code. It just seem beyond stupid, why would you write it in MSPaint and not just notepad? At first I thought this was going to be genius; I could just paint and image and it would turn it into code but sadly no. I really don't get the point of this unless it's just supposed to be funny.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @10:57PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @10:57PM (#868272)

    Millennials... it's the next step from the geniuses that brought you Ruby on Rails.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @10:57PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @10:57PM (#868273)

    Think of the possibilities...
    You plant a file called Important.exe on your friends desktop. He clicks on the icon and an image of goatse pops up with an audio file repeating "this user is watching porn" at volume 11... And no close button.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @11:05PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 17 2019, @11:05PM (#868275)

      You just described the system alarm clock I use to wake me up at my desk right before lunch.

  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Wednesday July 17 2019, @11:15PM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Wednesday July 17 2019, @11:15PM (#868280)

    He is ultimatly trying to code using rage comics. Variables named "FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUU"? No, MillHouse {} You can't be a meme. Yo, Dawg, we heard you like MS Pant so we re-wrote MS Paint in MS Paint. import ponies.*; Error: Why u do dis, Dolan? True (boolean) story. Extra BMP pannel!

    Leave it up to Java programmers to make things harder than they need to be.

    • (Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:18PM

      by nitehawk214 (1304) on Thursday July 18 2019, @03:18PM (#868526)

      And use memes and techniques that are at least 10 years old.

      (Disclaimer: I am a java programmer at my day job and still hear people raving about lambdas as if this was some new invention. I love lambdas, but Alonzo Church called from the 1930s... )

      --
      "Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
  • (Score: 3, Informative) by darkfeline on Thursday July 18 2019, @02:35AM (2 children)

    by darkfeline (1030) on Thursday July 18 2019, @02:35AM (#868329) Homepage

    It's a joke. The point is that it's fun(ny). It's a shame that in the contemporary age people have lost the ability to recognize jokes, perhaps because of rampant amount of stupidity.

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    • (Score: 3, Touché) by black6host on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:50AM

      by black6host (3827) on Thursday July 18 2019, @05:50AM (#868391) Journal

      And that, my friends, is why one day people will look back on the movie "Idiocracy" as a documentary. Sad indeed.

    • (Score: 2) by stormreaver on Thursday July 18 2019, @01:29PM

      by stormreaver (5101) on Thursday July 18 2019, @01:29PM (#868490)

      Or maybe it's because when Windows 3 was released, people took the joke too seriously; leading us into the nightmarish security-free apocalypse from which we are only beginning to recover.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @08:29AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @08:29AM (#868413)

    I am going to present this at the next "innovation center seminar".
    We'll see if someone cracks up before the CIO jumps onboard this "next big thing"

    • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 18 2019, @01:36PM

      by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday July 18 2019, @01:36PM (#868495) Journal

      The CIO will decide this amazing new IDE should be mandatory. To become policy immediately.

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      People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:55AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 18 2019, @10:55AM (#868435)

    Why? I'll tell you why. It's the perfect platform to support the return of Clippy. Do vi variants have a Clippy module? What about emacs? Eclipse? Intellij? Notepad++? Others? Of course not.

    All hail the return of Clippy.
    You appear to have a syntax error? Would you like to:
    - Delete your source file?
    - Compile your source file?
    - Run Windows Update?
    - Sign up for an Outlook.com account?
    - Buy a Microsoft eBook?
    - Renew your Play For Sure subscription?