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Why are programming environments primitive? That’s worth a blog post-length reply, but I think it’s because coding is relatively silo’d and non-standardized (in
by sqs 8y ago
Why are programming environments primitive? That’s worth a blog post-length reply, but I think it’s because coding is relatively silo’d and non-standardized (in languages, build systems, deployment schemes, and other tools). The impact of a single better tool is minimal because it could only address a tiny fraction of all developers. This is changing quickly, though, so I’m optimistic.
We are working on making programming environments less primitive. Here is our master plan: https://about.sourcegraph.com/plan/ https://about.sourcegraph.com/plan/.
- the_clarence 8y agoAcrually. For recently popular languages like javascript things are way better than say C or assembly. Resources, tools, debugging, etc. I'm still wondering why we are forcing people to write assembly with short and rubbish opcode mnemonics when we are going to compile it anyway. Even if you look at C vs Rust/Go we have made huge improvements. People don't need to write Makefiles anymore. Packages are easily sharable and re-usable. Security is by default. Etc.