Great chart! But it's so weird to see companies go on a hiring spree AFTER their product was essentially done. I cannot name a single feature that I use that wasn't present in the 2020 version. Since then, their headcount has more than quadrupled. What are those people doing?
Recently Unity made the headlines for some sketchy changes to their pricing policies. They've since walked back on those changes. Being a game developer, I took the opportunity to look into Unity, the company, and understand more of its history.
I compiled a timeline of their headcount since 2004 based on old articles, and more recently their SEC filings, and used Yahoo Finance for the "U" ticker stock value.
Sources for the events are referenced in the interactive annotations.
I used data from the WHO Mortality Database and the International Mortality And Smoking Statistics to create this annotated chart showing important events in the history of smoking in US.
It took some time to research the whole timeline, and it was shocking to see some of this data. The average adult was smoking more than 10 cigarettes per day in 1960!
The annotations are interactive, so if you hover them you'll see more context about the events.
I used data from the Vim git repository to create an annotated chart of some of the main moments in the last 20 years of Vim development.
Vim was the first text editor I've ever used (back in 2008), and it shaped the way I interact with computers forever. I'm grateful to all maintainers, and to Bram for creating it and shepherding it through all these decades.
The annotations are interactive, so if you hover them you'll see more context about the events.
> The annotations are interactive, so if you hover them you'll see more context about the events.
It would be helpful to put this somewhere on the page. On mobile especially one isn’t likely to accidentally discover this with random mouse movements.
I was thrown into vi, back in 1996, learning Linux. It was the default (or at least available) and the SuSE manual that came with the CD-ROM box had a chapter on vi/vim.
For me it was my first editor on Linux. Didn't stick until I rediscovered it some 20 years ago when I got fed up with the netbeans nonsense and gedit and Kate kept breaking on me.
When do most people use text editors? I think wouldn’t be that surprised if somebody fist used a text editor when they first got into Linux or programming.
But, I also think there’s enough leeway in the idea of “using a tool” to not be surprised that somebody doesn’t count a one-off use of notepad. And I think there must exist at least some people who really never used notepad.
Nowadays I only assume someone between, like, 30 and 50 will inherently have to have used Windows at some point. Outside that range, you might get graybeards who were around before Windows, or younger folks who only ever used smartphones.
Anyway, all that rambling is to say, I’d put it in the “most but not shocking to hear otherwise” category.
I mean, there exist and have always existed people who’ve never used it at home. And there exist and (ever since it came out) have existed people who have.
What I’ve tried to express is that there’s a small band where not having used it is unusual and surprising, and that isn’t the case anymore. I still think the majority of people have used Windows at least a handful of times but hearing that somebody hasn’t no longer produces a “how could anyone” sort of response.
They will use it, but they don’t know it’s Windows or what an OS is. They’ll just say it’s a Microsoft computer or PC. Or “not Apple”. Maybe even Android.
It was definitely notepad to edit some obscure .ini files on some pc game, or reading a Readme on a cracked/pirated game. On windows that would be the obvious case.
Downloading something over limewire or torrent and seeing a readme file for the first time is a pretty strong memory.
My first IDE was visual studio writing Visual Basic, I quickly binned that for netbeans and Java and then I think ended up using Eclipse.
Today I’m a casual evil mode emacs user mostly for magit and org-mode. also working in VScode for web languages.
Notepad++ (Windows, 2003) / gedit (GNOME, 1998) / kwrite/kate (KDE, 2001) all existed in 2008 and are totally fine basic text editors for source code. I remember editing PHP in a more obscure editor (SciTE, 1999) on Windows in the early 2000s.
You might be surprised to learn that the original version of Vim (on the Amiga: https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/l5j53m/the_text_edit...) was a GUI based application! Ok, it didn't have much in the way of an actual GUI, but it ran in a window which wasn't the shell/CLI window. I guess the actual reason why Vim is a console application on Linux is the lack of a "standard" GUI framework.
Be old. I went from VMS' EDT in the late 80s to JOE (Joe's Own Editor) on Ultrix, to Emacs, and finally Vim. I finally switched to Neovim after Bram's passing.
Its complexity. Elisp is both a blessing and a curse. It's great to be able to make deep, fundamental changes to Emacs via Elisp, but sometimes, you end up wading though very difficult-to-read code trying to figure out how it works. IME, vim is less flexible, but simpler when I just want to edit code and not think about Emacsisms.
I think they probably mean a non-modal visual/screen editor (like NotePad on Windows or TextEdit on Mac). I used pico on Unix before learning vi, for example, which is probably a common progression.
