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by ajross 522 days ago
I remain amazed that my dinosaur "shells and editors" workflow, which I've been using more or less unchanged for 30+ years and which really dates from the very earliest Unix GUIs on things like Sun 3's...

... remains genuinely preferable to any other tooling that's come along since. Obviously lots of people disagree and will stick to their full screen VSCode Windows or whatever and that's fine. But... a lot of people agree with me too! After four decades!

Really, a (very privileged) geek running a new emacs build on a 3/60 in 1986 or whatever was operating a development environment that wouldn't need significant improvement until at least her grandchildrens' careers. That's pretty amazing.