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> Visual Studio feels now way worse than it used to. You get more conscious about the time you're wasting. Visual Studio is the perfect example to me. I begged
by flukus 6y ago
> Visual Studio feels now way worse than it used to. You get more conscious about the time you're wasting.
Visual Studio is the perfect example to me. I begged dad to upgrade the computer to 64/128MB of RAM to get VC++6 to run. It was feature complete then and maybe a bit earlier. Sure supported languages and syntax of come and gone but the core product feature set (editor + intellisense) has not changed in over 20 years, yet the current version takes an order of magnitude more memory and is slower despite having a desktop more powerful than anything I could have imagined back then.
> It's not a matter of being text based, it's a matter of getting useful stuff done, and fast.
Sometimes this is about being composable and scriptable, text based generally helps here.
- alpaca128 6y ago> Sometimes this is about being composable and scriptable, text based generally helps here. Absolutely. This is one of the main reasons I'm using Vim - not only because of the program itself but how I can just combine it with the multiplexer I want, in my preferred terminal emulator, interfacing with other text-based tools. Many things I do regularly would require me to write custom plugins in VS Code. In Vim I can just bind keys to an arbitrary sequence of inputs - something modern applications sorely lack. It's limited, but that limitation severely reduced the complexity of the interface - it's all just a string and bash is, despite all its weirdness, an extremely productive string processing language.