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(Article is from 2023, so the title should be updated to say "32 years ago", or something) The biggest loss in TUIs is the latest wave of asynchronous frameworks, which bring the joy of dropped keypresses to the terminal. In any TUI released before the year 2000, if you press a key when the system wasn't ready, the key would just wait until the system was ready. Many TUIs today still do this, but increasingly frequen…
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When people love an IDE product so much that they can't work without it, they have overspecialised to their detriment. And possibly to the detriment of the code itself. > As for terminal IDEs The GNU/Linux terminal is the killer app . Multiple terminals in a tiling window manager is peak productivity for me. (Browser in a separate virtual workspace.) And modern scaling for a big display is unbeatable for developer er…
Good luck writing Java with notepad.
I used to use a Java-oriented IDE called “Visix Vibe”, at first as an experiment in application development with Java and then as an alternative to Delphi, which was my bread and butter tooling environment for custom application development. Both of these IDE’s gave me a huge productivity boost, and it used to be a no-brainer to give customers a realizable estimate for getting the UI done, then wiring up logic, and g…
You may laugh, but that is how I use html forms today. Simple. And effective.
I saw this and was like, what? > have we advanced much in 30 years? IDEs have changed a lot, specially with AI-assisted ones. The author kind of acknowledges it, but imho it's a paradigm shift. Not just "a major difference". > The only major difference that we are starting to see might be AI-assisted coding, but this is a feature mostly provided by a remote service, not even by the installed code! Then I realized it’…
Is this not an overstatement? How does a person understand code if they write so much of it with AI?
As for autocompletion, not sure about every tool but CLion and other IDEs I have from JetBrains are genius. Yes they can autocomplete multiple lines of code with a single keystrokes and no I do not really want to write it myself as it mostly boilerplate code I've written many times and autocompletion just predicts it.
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When people love an IDE product so much that they can't work without it, they have overspecialised to their detriment. And possibly to the detriment of the code itself. > As for terminal IDEs The GNU/Linux terminal is the killer app . Multiple terminals in a tiling window manager is peak productivity for me. (Browser in a separate virtual workspace.) And modern scaling for a big display is unbeatable for developer er…
> When people love an IDE product so much that they can't work without it, they have overspecialised to their detriment. I think you are wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_memory Being extremely good at something increases the gap between said something and everything else. That doesn't mean being extremely good at the first thing is "over-specialization to detriment". If someone is equally mediocre at every…
I like these programs, mostly for that sweet low latency which is just gone today, but I wouldn't romanticize them as dev experiences. To experience it you can download free pascal today and use theirs which is just like turbo pascal (may even based on turbo pascal?). Its pretty clunky compared to what you get today, although, the debugger works which is more than what you can say for the majority of languages today.
When I saw Visual Studio years later, or Visual Basic, these IDEs were doing so much more, but I‘d lose the ability to fully control the bare text. These MS tools wouldn’t allow me to write my code in my favourite text editor and version it. So they were nice and a curse at the same time.
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> So many of those classic TUIs adopted WordStar’s sacred keystrokes. What are the WordStar bindings and what do you like about them? I have a general interest in the history of how these patterns emerge and what the benefits of them are relative to each other.
Sci-fi author Robert Sawyer (who has won Hugo and Nebula awards) is a big fan of Wordstar -- he uses it to write his books. I highly recommend reading this: https://www.sfwriter.com/wordstar.htm
In the golden age of DOS you had an array of bytes representing characters and an array representing attributes (background and foreground colors) and the hardware drew out of that. If you wanted to write a ‘A’ to a certain spot you wrote 0x41 to a certain memory address and that was that —- there were some wait states involved but it was way faster than drawing on a 9600 baud terminal with ANSI terminal commands tha…
Damn that actually sounds superior. How did changing the size work?
If you made a custom font you could also have more diversity in the number of rows too but this was rarely done.
Eventually different text modes became available with higher resolution video cards and monitors. 132 columns of text were common but there were others.
(Article is from 2023, so the title should be updated to say "32 years ago", or something) The biggest loss in TUIs is the latest wave of asynchronous frameworks, which bring the joy of dropped keypresses to the terminal. In any TUI released before the year 2000, if you press a key when the system wasn't ready, the key would just wait until the system was ready. Many TUIs today still do this, but increasingly frequen…
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