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Why are programming environments still so primitive? In different ways, Mathematica, Genera, and Smalltalk put almost every other programming environment to sha
by rsp1984 8y ago
Why are programming environments still so primitive?
In different ways, Mathematica, Genera, and Smalltalk put almost every other programming environment to shame. Atom, Sublime Edit, and Visual Studio Code are neat, but they do not represent a great improvement over TextMate circa 2007. Emacs and Vim have advanced by even less.
Why pretend IDEs don't exist? For my C++ development I couldn't be happier with Qt Creator (which happily manages non-Qt projects too), which does a lot of nice things to speed up my coding and code understanding.
I only use text editors like the ones mentioned when I have to and IDEs whenever I can.
- nikki93 8y agoC++ IDEs and Smalltalk / Lisp visual environments are in very different leagues. It’s worth giving, eg. Pharo Smalltalk, a shot.
- leoedin 8y agoI've heard great things about the productivity of Smalltalk. Is Pharo the best way to explore the language?
- nikki93 8y agoSorry for the late response. Yeah I mostly played w/ it in 2015 but I think Pharo was the most modern option then and there were good resources like "Updated Pharo by Example" (a free book).