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There exist tools outside of your apparent zone of comfort that let us do whatever we damn please from the command line. I think you'd be surprised how much use
by zdkl 10y ago
There exist tools outside of your apparent zone of comfort that let us do whatever we damn please from the command line. I think you'd be surprised how much user facing code was written using Emacs/Vim.
- pjmlp 10y agoI was already coding in the 80's, back then it was called VI. So I know pretty well how the UNIX System V experience for GUI programming looks like.
- AnonymousPlanet 10y agoAnd I used Windows already back in the 90s, so I know exactly what the PC experience looks like with all its BSODs and token rings.
- pjmlp 10y agoAt least it already had RAD GUI tools that cared about usability while most UNIX terminals that I was still using in 1994 were green phosphor ones.
- AnonymousPlanet 10y agoWell, speak for yourself. About the same time, our local university had very impressive Irix X-terminals with a rock solid GUI. It might be that you have only had a small glimpse of the things beyond PCs back then. And that seems to still have an impact on your perception of things on the "Unix" side ;)
- pjmlp 10y agoYou mean like this in 1991? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg I would have rather used the GUI tooling of a NeXT, which eschews the UNIX traditions even though it builds partially on top of them, than the Solaris way of programming GUIs, if given the option. Just because I could only access green phosphor terminals, doesn't mean I wasn't aware of other, more expensive, options.