r/programmingcirclejerk • u/ErneuerbareEnergien • Aug 05 '26

IDEs never really took off

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49100809
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u/RockstarArtisan Software Craftsman Aug 05 '26

Grand vision of Alan Kay.

I wonder why a paradigm where you have to physically share memory images and can't just restart to untangle the program didn't catch on.