Long-time programmer/researcher/former MIT research fellow Jonathan Edwards writes a blog called “Alarming Development: Dispatches from the User Liberation Front.” He began the new year by arguing that software “is eating the world. But progress in software technology itself largely stalled around 1996.” Slashdot reader tonique summarizes Edwards’ argument:
In 1996 there were “LISP, Algol, Basic, APL, Unix, C, Oracle, Smalltalk, Windows, C++,…
Tag: text editors
JetBrains to Reimagine IntelliJ as Text Editor, Add Machine Learning
From a report:
JetBrains has added further destinations to the IntelliJ-based roadmap it sketched out last year, promising more localization, machine learning and Git integration amongst a range of other goodies for the Java IDE… The Prague-based firm’s CTO Dimitry Jemerov said users had long asked to be able to use its IDEs for “general purpose text editing”. While this is possible…