They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pascal 7

Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas... by Grombobulous on Saturday November 07, 2026 @04:58PM (#50408427)

I’m not appalled by it because the resource use is “free.”

I already have 32GB of RAM plus an M2 Max in my laptop because my company issued it to me. I already have 32GB of RAM and a 9850X3D in my desktop because I play games.

What non-ideological motivation do I have to ration computing resources on my IDE?

If I was coding on a raspberry pi my story would change, but I’m not so I don’t care.

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Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas... by serf on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:56AM (#50413857)

>What non-ideological motivation do I have to ration computing resources on my IDE?

I feel gross explaining this.

If we both have the same exact machine, but I choose to use software that uses substantially less resources -- well -- then I get to run more of that software simultaneously.

if you use computers as some big single-tasked typewriter equivalent then yeah, who cares.

it's not all fucking style and ideology, sometimes behaviors have a decent concrete reasoning.

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