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by xigoi 1465 days ago
If “pre-historic” means “doesn't take several minutes to start and require 8GB of RAM”, I guess that's a good thing.
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pjmlp 1465 days ago
I wonder how Turbo Pascal IDE managed to fit into 640 KB....
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xigoi 1464 days ago
Because it wasn't based on bloatware liks Electron. And I guess the developers actually cared about performance because at that time they couldn't just assume that everyone has a powerful machine.
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pjmlp 1464 days ago
Electron !== IDE.
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