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Re:Atom Was Archived Today by pjmlp on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:33AM (#34011271)
Predated VSCode version of LSP, the idea is at least as old as Lucid Emacs.

> A central server uses an Objectstore database to tightly integrate compiler(Lucid C++ Compiler), editor(emacs), debugger(gdb), and browsers

https://www.desy.de/user/projects/C++/products/lucid.html

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Re:Atom Was Archived Today by p-e-w on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:50AM (#34011438)
Which demonstrates once again that doing something right is far more important than doing it first.
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Re:Atom Was Archived Today by satvikpendem on Friday December 16, 2022 @01:55AM (#34011490)
That's not always true, sometimes first (and worse) is better. VHS vs Betamax comes to mind.
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Re:Atom Was Archived Today by thombat on Friday December 16, 2022 @02:11AM (#34011627)
Except that VHS was released after Betamax, so second & worse video quality won that time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHS

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betamax

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Re:Atom Was Archived Today by jhoechtl on Friday December 16, 2022 @04:28AM (#34012581)
This IS an urban legend which deserves to die.

VHS wasn't of discernible worse picture quality but provided much better usability at the same time.

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Re:Atom Was Archived Today by NoGravitas on Friday December 16, 2022 @10:55AM (#34015973)
VHS was of marginally worse picture quality, but for that small trade-off you got the huge benefit of being able to record a feature-length movie on one tape.
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