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Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) by lokedhs on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:06AM (#22846162)
That's funny. I was using IntelliJ IDEA at version 3, and it was an amazing experience. With version 4 they made changes to the code parser that made it slow and incredibly unstable. It's been improved since then of course but in my mind they still haven't gotten back to the speed and efficiency that they had 15 years ago.
Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) by geophile on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:14AM (#22846183)
I may be off on the version numbers. But I do remember 3 as being very buggy.
Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) by lokedhs on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:34AM (#22846437)
I may be off as well, and we're probably talking about the same version. As far as I remember it was version 4 that was the slow and buggy one.

I was trying to find out when these versions were released to see if I could line it up with the projects I was working on at the time, but I can't find a list of major releases with dates.

Re:Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than (2011) by exikyut on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:05AM (#22846908)
Hi, I got curious and went digging for a few minutes :)

- https://www.jetbrains.com/company/press/press-archive/pr_111... - press release for 3.0, Nov 11 2002

- https://www.jetbrains.com/company/press/press-archive/pr_021... - PR for 4.0, Feb 11, 2004

(Found via `intellij idea "3.0"` and `intellij idea "4.0"`)

- http://web.archive.org/web/20030320181401/http://www.intelli... - announcement for 2.6, Jun 3 2002

- http://web.archive.org/web/20030210115005/http://www.intelli... - APPROX - download page offering 3.0.1, archived Feb 10 2003

- http://web.archive.org/web/20010223163551/http://www.intelli... - APPROX - download page for 1.0.2 (build 339), archived Feb 23 2001

(Started poking around inside IA by following the EAP link at https://wiki.c2.com/?IntellijIdea, which is helpfully woefully out of date)

- https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Home has info back to 9.x (expand "88 more" on the left)

- https://www.jetbrains.com/company/press/press-archive/pr_151... - irrelevant but interesting FOSS release announcement, Oct 15, 2009

If more accuracy is needed, perhaps the relevant info will only be one or intermediate pages away from the above.