Many of those features were already available in MS-DOS and Windows 3.x IDEs from Borland for Turbo Pascal and C++.
Which is why when I got into UNIX development felt like going into the stone age of development tools, thankfully XEmacs was already there.
Which by the way, it was born for Energize C++, in 1993!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQQTScuApWk
Also here is what NeXTSTEP development environment looked like, used for Quake tooling development, in a 1991 marketing video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGhfB-NICzg
Which is why, I usually assert I cannot understand the nostalgia of CLI and TUI, being there at the time, and not being able to use some of these systems, due to the amount of money they required.
> Which is why, I usually assert I cannot understand the nostalgia of CLI and TUI, being there at the time, and not being able to use some of these systems, due to the amount of money they required.
I was not there at the time, but one appeal of CLI (not TUI) is scripting. After a while, you have all your routine packaged in nice alias and commands. And that’s universal across all languages and projects.
That is achievable with proper REPLs.
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>Which is why, I usually assert I cannot understand the nostalgia of CLI and TUI
Elitism
Yeah, right. :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/cinescenes/comments/18h22ug/hackers...
sometimes you wanna do debugging on a device that has no screen or ethernet port too
Debugging can be done even by serial ports and JTAG.