Re:Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
by gutnor on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:46AM
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Massive increase in personal computer power (cloud or physical).
Internet and resources like stack overflow.
Back in the days, I remember the isolation.
First from the domain, we could only run part of the application or use unnaturally tiny dataset meaning that the application behaviour in prod was an abstract concept. Hell, we could not even build the app at all on large application.
Second from knowledge. If you didn't know something, you needed to pick a book and read or find someone who knew. Nowadays, with a few hours on the net, you can build enough of a working knowledge of a tech to at least know if it is worth the investment.
Re:Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
by anthk on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @12:09AM
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>Back in the days, I remember the isolation.
There were newsgroups, basically SO on comp.* subgroups.
Re:Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
by lottin on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:27AM
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In the 80s and early 90s most people didn't have internet.
But some of the main productivity drivers are distributed version control systems, dependency management libraries, and sites like GitHub for sharing code and libraries.
Being able to automatically generate a project from a template, and pull in any open source library written by anyone on the planet with a single line in a config file, is amazing.
Also, remote hosting and cloud provisioning to quickly deploy any code to be used by anyone in the world with a web browser. Arguably even app stores by eliminating the need to figure out distribution and payments on your own. (The stuff maybe not everyone considers "development", but is key to the overall productivity of any software project.)