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Re:Introducing Atom-IDE by osteele on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @03:35PM (#15231254)
D'oh!

(I also have fond memories of Think C and then Metrowerks, back in the day. A lot of us used them at Apple, instead of the official MPW.)

This brings up some other advantages of text editors versus IDEs, within my limited experience:

* More rapid support for more languages and syntaxes

* Many of the IDEs just feel sluggish. (Yes, Atom can get that way with large files, large numbers of files, or too many plugins.)

* Xcode in particular kept crashing on me last time I used it for Swift.

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Re:Introducing Atom-IDE by munificent on Tuesday September 12, 2017 @06:07PM (#15233354)
> fond memories of Think C and then Metrowerks

Me too, especially the former. It's so weird the things our nostalgia anchors itself to. And don't get me started on ResEdit. My emotional palette has a color reserved specifically for the feeling I got poking around applications and creating icons and cursors using it.

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