On Tue, 2019-12-24 at 09:52 -0800, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > On Tue, Dec 24, 2019 at 10:18:49AM +0000, Russel Winder via > Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[…] > Haha, well, a *real* hardcore retro guy would be using a magnet, a > pin, > and a *really* steady hand, to flip individual bits on an exposed > harddisk platter to create the executable in the filesystem directly, > one bit at a time. > > Of course, one could also just use emacs: > > https://xkcd.com/378/ > > :-D One always returns to using Emacs for text editing – it is the One True Editor™ (and kitchen sink). […] > It wasn't so much wrong highlighting for me, it was the fact that it > was > highlighted at all. I find the kaleidoscopic colors extremely > distracting and disruptive to my focusing on the textual content of > the > code. Not to mention that the colors usually clash horribly with my > chosen foreground/background color scheme in my terminal, which only > adds unreadable bits of text to the problem. Emacs and JetBrains CLion seem to work fine for me in both light-on- dark and dark-on-light mode, so syntax highlighting works for me for the editors I use. I keep trying VIM, Atom, VSCode, SublimeText, Geany, etc. from time to time, but I get bored trying to get them set up to be even remotely sensible and just go back to Emacs. […] > > Actually, I wouldn't mind a syntax-oriented editor, if one could be > made > that wasn't artificially restrictive in terms of editing various > different languages and various different flavors of different > languages, such that it could be used as a general tool. There is a movement to try and bring back what could be described as SOEs, but I am not seeing that much traction as yet. The incumbent editors that use vast quantities of CPU to reconstruct ASTs on the fly seem to dominate mindset. […] > > This madness is nothing compared to the utter, gibbering insanity of > modern web design, in which modern 8-core CPUs with GHz speeds and > GBs > of memory run dead-simple applications like word processors at the > *same* speeds (if not worse!) as WordStar would run back in 1980 on > an 8 > *Hz* CPU with 64KB of RAM. With exactly the same lag between > keystrokes, and the same (lack of) reliability requiring frequent > backups and incessant restarting. > > Now *that* I call a mad, mad world. The madness of IDEs parsing and > reparsing the same AST over and over again umpteen times per second > doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of *this* madness. I just > can't wait to see some poor sod attempt to reimplement a modern IDE > in > Javascript and succeed at reproducing 1980's IDE speeds and (lack of) > quality. And of course the masses would slobber all over it and hail > it > as "progress". The browser king has no clothes, and everybody sees > invisible. I can only agree with this rant. The modern world of software has increasingly become about doing less and less useful to the end user with more and more hardware resources. -- Russel. =========================================== Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk
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