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by falcolas 1286 days ago
People can - do, and always have done - work around tool deficiencies.

Once you're familiar with a tool, the simple act of moving to another tool will be what slows you down, but you'll get back up to speed soon enough.

The only place tool choice really matters is when you're part of a team who has to pass their work around. If you're not using the same tool - whichever tool it may be - it adds needless friction.
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082349872349872 1286 days ago
In principle, if stuck on a desert island, we all could recreate our tools, right?

(stuck, w/plenty of hardware and electricity, that is)

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falcolas 1286 days ago
Whole rant... responding to the wrong comment.

Anyways. Could we re-create our programming tools? Eventually. So long as we have a computer and a whole lot of time. Bootstrapping a programming language to create an operating system's going to be a real bear though.

Now then, making those tools efficient (namely optimizing compilers) and safe is going to take a whole lot of time and brainpower.

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