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> absolutely massive difference in functionality of newer apps As antepodius already said, this isn't really true. Slack has a few more features than the chat

> absolutely massive difference in functionality of newer apps As antepodius already said, this isn't really true. Slack has a few more features than the chat applications of 15 years ago. I suspect it may also lack a few of their features. It uses vastly more resources. Visual Studio is a full IDE, with more features than the Electron-based Visual Sudio Code.

PragmaticPulp 6y ago
> Slack has a few more features than the chat applications of 15 years ago. I suspect it may also lack a few of their features. It uses vastly more resources. Yet Slack has massively more adoption than any previous chat app. That’s not by coincidence: They made it at least an order of magnitude more useful for their target audience. Slack is, without a doubt, orders of magnitude more complicated than previous-gen chat apps. It’s not like they could have built it with a handful of engineers operating some IRC servers. However, I was specifically referring to text editors (responding to the OP) vs modern IDEs. As you said, full IDEs have vastly more features than a simple terminal program or basic text editor. That’s where the order of magnitude more functionality comes from.
- flukus 6y ago
  > Yet Slack has massively more adoption than any previous chat app Maybe just, by virtue of there being more internet users these days. But you're underestimating just how ubiquitous IRC was, it was near universal. Sure there was no single app that everyone used, but that was a feature. With slack we've gained a few features but regressed in so many other ways.