John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridman Podcast Clips

Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by frou_dh on Saturday August 13, 2022 @06:01AM (#32448371)

That doesn't really refute the point that Carmack made. Namely that a lot of the supposed inherent difficulty in the endeavour of debugging is actually incidental from a general cultural attachment to crap old tooling.

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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by teddyh on Saturday August 13, 2022 @02:44PM (#32452597)

And I believe the point of Kernighan, as well as Torvalds, is that the difficulty of debugging serves as a bulwark against over-complicated code.

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Re:John Carmack: Best Programming Setup and IDE – Lex Fridma... by frou_dh on Saturday August 13, 2022 @03:50PM (#32453146)

So that's why ed(1) is the standard text editor. Anything more usable is a dangerous extravagance! :)

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