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by open_bear 3221 days ago
> No matter how good your environment, you do not beat the collective effort and productivity of file-system based tools.

I bet people said the same about trains and ships. There was a lot of work put into horse-powered infrastructure and first cars and trains were very slow and bad. Same with boats: at the time steam-powered ships were created wind-powered clippers were 5 times faster and much more reliable.
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btilly 3220 days ago
The difference here is that image based languages have been making the argument that their better will beat every one else's larger community for decades. The one that came closest to realizing the dream was Smalltalk.

But somehow it never happened.

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