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I learned programming with paper, pen, match boxes to represent unary turing machines, and printed out language manuals, I'm afraid you can't out-hipster me wit
by creshal 5y ago
I learned programming with paper, pen, match boxes to represent unary turing machines, and printed out language manuals, I'm afraid you can't out-hipster me with just emacs.
And you completely miss the point: I'm fully aware that they exist, and that's the problem. Lightweight yet modular editors are such a crowded market that I don't see a realistic way for JetBrains to successfully compete in it. They don't have the same community momentum that emacs/(neo)vim have, nor do they have the resources of Microsoft. People who like IDEs are the only target demographic they have, it would be foolish to neglect those to muscle into a market crowded with very successful free products.
- kaba0 5y agoBut they would be stupid to start from scratch. They intend to reuse all their superior intellisense, code analysis programs and make it available through a unified API for both their current tools and this newly built one. If anything, they just want to build up a new frontend and the first look on that will be an “easy” one with a vanilla code editor.