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Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)

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Re: Let's compile like it's 1992 (2014)

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Grab a copy of Borland's IDE [0] while you're at it. Experience what was normal and good all those years ago, and marvel at how little distance we've come. [0] https://winworldpc.com/product/borland-c-builder/6x

Borland's IDE has a huge nostalgia factor for me, it was the first IDE that made it so I didn't have to think about linking and the rest of the toolchain, I could just hit 'Build'.

But while most of our tooling for Software Engineering is pretty archaic. I think there is a tooling revolution going on now, especially with new languages: autoformatters, graduation typing, memory ownership checkers, etc. I feel like as an industry we are slowly starting to take tooling seriously.

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