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Whhhhyyyyy? > The IDE may seem like a joke, but the research and development gone into it is most definitely not. > MS Paint IDE uses a custom OCR that can be

Whhhhyyyyy? > The IDE may seem like a joke, but the research and development gone into it is most definitely not. > MS Paint IDE uses a custom OCR that can be trained by nearly any font in any size, reading code from images in just miliseconds. The IDE's compiler and program output are in .png's, and automatically underlines any errors present and provides syntax highlighting with Java, Go, Python, and JavaScript currently being supported. > The IDE also allows for arbitrarily editing any text file through Paint via a context menu option, with native-looking button overlays onto MS Paint to perform IDE actions. why?

INTPenis 2y ago
Just think of all the useful software they could have written.
- treve 2y ago
  Just think of the shareholder value they could have created instead of having fun.
- jancsika 2y ago
  But also just think of all the useful software that hasn't been written by people sitting around thinking about all the useful software that could be written. I'd love to see a project on github that mines HN posts for a decent sized list of this. I'll start-- off the top of my head I remember a post from Mike Hearn about starting the web from scratch using a format that announces the size of the incoming message rather than making the recipient check for terminator(s). There must be a dozen dozen such thoughts-without-software of "the web, but good" on here. If we have a list then you could plug it in to a script and have a spit out a random set, and then you could focus specifically on those. Anyway, I'm thinking it should be stored and maintained as a quine...
- prophesi 2y ago
  It made me laugh, and that's reason enough for me to code anything.
haswell 2y ago
On HN, I think a better question is exactly the opposite: why not?! I’ve built bizarre things that no one will use purely to learn about things. Many projects are about the process itself and less about the outcome. Every one of those “useless” projects has informed my productive work throughout my career.
david422 2y ago
I'm gonna guess it started as a fun idea, and the fun continued by solving and implementing fun new features ... But seems like a huge amount of time sunk into something that I can't imagine anyone would actually use for more than a couple of minutes.
ninetyninenine 2y ago
Just in the past couple of weeks someone ported doom into typescripts type system. Even bigger why.

INTPenis 2y ago

Just think of all the useful software they could have written.

treve 2y ago
Just think of the shareholder value they could have created instead of having fun.
jancsika 2y ago
But also just think of all the useful software that hasn't been written by people sitting around thinking about all the useful software that could be written. I'd love to see a project on github that mines HN posts for a decent sized list of this. I'll start-- off the top of my head I remember a post from Mike Hearn about starting the web from scratch using a format that announces the size of the incoming message rather than making the recipient check for terminator(s). There must be a dozen dozen such thoughts-without-software of "the web, but good" on here. If we have a list then you could plug it in to a script and have a spit out a random set, and then you could focus specifically on those. Anyway, I'm thinking it should be stored and maintained as a quine...
prophesi 2y ago
It made me laugh, and that's reason enough for me to code anything.

haswell 2y ago

On HN, I think a better question is exactly the opposite: why not?! I’ve built bizarre things that no one will use purely to learn about things. Many projects are about the process itself and less about the outcome. Every one of those “useless” projects has informed my productive work throughout my career.

david422 2y ago

I'm gonna guess it started as a fun idea, and the fun continued by solving and implementing fun new features ... But seems like a huge amount of time sunk into something that I can't imagine anyone would actually use for more than a couple of minutes.

ninetyninenine 2y ago

Just in the past couple of weeks someone ported doom into typescripts type system. Even bigger why.