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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by simiones on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @01:48AM (#26720971)
I think much more than language syntax and features, it was impressive until ~5-10 years ago just how advanced IDEs for Smalltalk and Lisps were compared to any other language. There has been a massive catch up in recent years, though I think many dynamic languages are still behind on their IDE support compared to these ancient technologies.
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Re:An Apology to COBOL: Maybe Old Technology Isn’t the Real ... by pjmlp on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @02:10AM (#26721082)
Edit and continue still aren't as good as those IDEs are capable of.

Then there is the whole stack REPL development experience, which probably Powershell + .NET + COM/UWP on Windows is the closest we get today.

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