It is pretty much how I use the computer today, with few improvements with emacs and tmux. As I am teaching my daughter how to use cat/cut/grep etc, I am doing so truly thinking that this is the best way to use a computer in 2023.
The other day I was teaching her few shortcuts ^P and so on, I thought that maybe its time to re-think this whole cursor and keybinds thing. With apples vr magic goggles maybe someone can make an editor that I can follow code and write text and have 50 chats with some llm discussing various parts of the code I am working on.
All editors are limited by monitor space, the linux kernel style guide still has 80 column recommendation (not a hard limit since 2020), the way we jump into and out of code, or we step into thing, all are very limited and are pretty much the same since 1984.
I hope soon we have tooling like in the Hackers movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/) and use our eyes more to be able to follow code and systems.
The complexity of the systems has increased (e.g. cloud, hundreds of services, even LSP, tons and tons of boilerplate and generated code), but our tools are stuck.
It is pretty much how I use the computer today, with few improvements with emacs and tmux. As I am teaching my daughter how to use cat/cut/grep etc, I am doing so truly thinking that this is the best way to use a computer in 2023.
The other day I was teaching her few shortcuts ^P and so on, I thought that maybe its time to re-think this whole cursor and keybinds thing. With apples vr magic goggles maybe someone can make an editor that I can follow code and write text and have 50 chats with some llm discussing various parts of the code I am working on.
All editors are limited by monitor space, the linux kernel style guide still has 80 column recommendation (not a hard limit since 2020), the way we jump into and out of code, or we step into thing, all are very limited and are pretty much the same since 1984.
I hope soon we have tooling like in the Hackers movie (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113243/) and use our eyes more to be able to follow code and systems.
The complexity of the systems has increased (e.g. cloud, hundreds of services, even LSP, tons and tons of boilerplate and generated code), but our tools are stuck.