Comment by magicalhippo

This reminded me of BBS'[1], which again reminded me of the older days where you sent letters and got one back a week or three later.

I had programmed a lot in Delphi before I started programming in C++, and the orders of magnitude slower build times caused me to program very differently.

I would re-read several times and reason much more about my code before issuing a build command. Whereas in Delphi, the almost instantaneous builds meant I used it almost like a spell checker.

Back in the BBS days you left a message and checked back in a day.

Perhaps its rose tinted glasses I've got on but I feel todays instantaneous communication isn't always for the better.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system