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I think the distinction needs to be made between native development, which is much more performant, with far less dependencies, than web-based development - whi

I think the distinction needs to be made between native development, which is much more performant, with far less dependencies, than web-based development - which requires a great deal of runway before it can be launched. Removing compilers from the base OS install package has been detrimental to application development, and has created a bias towards web-based tools, for the reasons you state.

monocasa 7y ago
Outside of Unix, base install has never included compilers. And the people talking about yesteryear's more introspectable computers aren't talking about Unix workstations. These people are talking about BASIC interpreters, not native development. And there's no dependencies for web based development unless you want them. Just open notepad and save a .html file. Done.