An IDE That Does Not Suck - Fortune [possible satire]

vdamewoodMaybe I should make an IDE.
vdamewoodOne that doesn't suck.
rindolfvaresa: one thing I don't understand about JetBrains is why they have so many IDEs with a common codebase and different feature-sets. seems like a bad money-making scheme.
rindolfvdamewood: it likely will suck. :-).
vdamewoodThis coming from the guy who explains why all languages suck.
rindolfvdamewood: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=joel-ms-lost-api-war-1
rindolfvdamewood: and also https://xkcd.com/927/
vdamewoodIs that the one about competing standards?
rindolfvdamewood: yes, it is.
vdamewoodHey, every once in a while someone comes along, makes a new X, and completely obliterates every other X out there.
nso95rindolf: hey!
vdamewoodSpeaking of competing products, I need to learn mercurial.
jeayeI don't see the need for yet another IDE.
rindolfnso95: hi, sup?
nso95nm, you?
rindolfnso95: I woke up a while ago.
nso95ah/
rindolfnso95: and I am unable to reproduce the short benchmarking time I got yesterday. I've lost faith in humanity.
nso95that’s rather unfortunate
vdamewoodMy co workers: https://xkcd.com/1597/
nso95this next semester is going to suck
vdamewoodThe next semester always sucks, except the one after your last.
vdamewoodjeaye: There's no need for another bootloader either, but here I am.
jeayeThat's different.
jeaye"One that doesn't suck." is the key point.
jeayeYou didn't say that about the bootloader.
vdamewoodOh, yeah. I have no real goal to make mine not suck. Good point.
Channel##programming
NetworkFreenode
TaglineCompletely obliterate all sucky IDEs
Published2016-03-26