Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages
by allenu on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @11:25AM
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When I was a kid, there were no free compilers. You had to pay for tools like Turbo Pascal. You were either lucky if you found a decent free C compiler to download off a BBS or you pirated one.
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Re:Stop Building on Corporate-Controlled Languages
by notacoward on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @12:00PM
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When the original 128KB Macintosh came out, I started programming on it in assembler because I couldn't afford any of the compilers. Being able to work at that level affected the trajectory for about the first half of my career, and I think for the better. Growing up in a world with free compilers (and complete-enough scripting languages too) seems very different.