Comment by davidw

1 day ago

This is the part in the movie where they have to convince the grizzled hacker to come out of retirement because he's the only one who can actually operate Emacs or vim and write code.

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Ancapistani  1 day ago

Funny you should say this - just this morning I was mocked during a standup because I use Neovim instead of VSCode.

Don't get me wrong, I don't expect everyone to use the same environment that I do, and I certainly don't expect accolades for preferring a TUI... but that struck me as a regression of sorts in software development. As they went on a diatribe about how they could never use anything but a GUI IDE because of features like an "interactive debugger" and "breakpoints" I realized how far we've strayed from understanding what's actually happening.

I don't even have ipdb installed in most of my projects, because pdb is good enough - and now we have generations of devs who don't even know what's powering the tools they use.

r14c  1 day ago

Maybe its a generational thing, but to me an elite hacker is an uwu catgirl type with lain vibes that knows an unhealthy amount about computers. typically an emacs evil-mode user who would quote weird poems about whatever software they're working on.

  • davidw  19 hours ago

    It could be a buddy movie where the grizzled guy (who uses emacs) and the uwu cat girl (who uses vim) grudgingly come to admire one another's skills and become friends.

jacquesm  1 day ago

Emacs or vim? Code? No, the source code was lost aeons ago, all we have is hexedit on /proc. Please don't cause it to dump core just get it out of its infinite loop.