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Re:ARM-Ed Mac: We Have an Answer by skohan on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:07AM (#22663199)
An IDE is never going to be as flexible as a unix environment. It can deliver some of that, but it's likely you will run into limitations sooner or later.
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Re:ARM-Ed Mac: We Have an Answer by pjmlp on Monday March 23, 2020 @08:26AM (#22663348)
From the point of view from Xerox PARC workstation experience, which is kind of replicated in modern IDEs, it is the UNIX experience that fails short.

The shell is a subset of what an IDE REPL is capable of, with OS API integration and structured data manipulation.

As for background processes, that is a basic feature of any modern IDE.

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