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This would be fine if it were obvious to all of us that GUIs have advanced as far as they can, and the remainder of the problems we see in them were inherent to
by seldo 16y ago
This would be fine if it were obvious to all of us that GUIs have advanced as far as they can, and the remainder of the problems we see in them were inherent to the complexity and nondeterministic nature of the systems they manage.
But it's not like that. My IDE occasionally gets confused and forgets how to rename a file. Eclipse takes 3 minutes to refresh a source-file tree. People still use vim and emacs for things! There could be no clearer sign to me that IDEs are rubbish pieces of software than the fact that people keep falling back on tools that have barely evolved in 30 years.
- ekiru 16y agovim was released in 1991. emacs did exist 30 years ago, but it's certainly evolved quite a bit since then. My personal emacs installation evolves regularly, although I will admit that it hasn't evolved at all today.
- leot 16y agovi was released in, apparently, 1976. http://www.linfo.org/vi/history.html http://www.linfo.org/vi/history.html
- jsvaughan 16y agoI bet your target directory is not marked as derived
- sp4rki 16y agoYou are kind of making the assumption that there should be something better than Vim and Emacs because they where created decades ago and are not pretty "gui driven" applications. Programming is simply writing and editing text. Vim and Emacs are editors and they fulfill their jobs marvelously, and that's OK. We don't need no stinking IDEs!