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Re:How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web D... by desireco42 on Saturday August 24, 2013 @10:16AM (#6268700)
True. But it was not all linear progress. In 1995 I had Turbo Pascal for example, that had ide with decent editor, fantastic debugger and profiler. And don't even start me on context sensitive help. What I have today is way crappier or non-existant.

LightTable is tool that one guy started as a futuristic tool, yet it is what we had before.

Complexity of our work is ever increasing and fun definitely never stops, I wish tools were better so we can enjoy languages more. As tools augment our ability to do work, having excellent tools would allow you to do more and be easier.

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Re:How Flow-Based Programming Could Save The Sanity Of Web D... by cheald on Saturday August 24, 2013 @09:48PM (#6270552)
Plenty of tools do what you describe, and far better than Turbo Pascal did in the 90s. Try Visual Studio or IntelliJ, for example.

When you can't perform static analysis (which is very difficult to do effectively in dynamically-typed languages), many of those tools you are talking about are just not possible.

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