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On Linux this depends on your theme really, all the themes i use have scrollbars - e.g. here is an example with Gtk3 (which IIRC introduced the "autohiding scrollbars" to Linux desktop)[0]. It is "cdetheme-solaris" which i think is from [1]. I might have modified it a bit though. Though normally i use Gtk2 apps with a modified "cleanlooks" theme (a screenshot from Lazarus[2] i made a couple of days ago shows it - including the scrollbars :-P).
[0] https://i.imgur.com/CAyu5Ay.png
[1] https://github.com/josvanr/cde-motif-theme
[2] https://i.imgur.com/Yw1tTcD.png
I agree with the article. Turbo Pascal was terrific. There is some kind of psychological thing that has me using neovim in a terminal all the time for many years.
I guess it's convenient for ssh. But I miss the conveniences of Borland IDEs. Even last night I was working on a web application and was tempted to add a menu at the top of the page, remembering how useful they were back in Turbo Pascal and such.
I did a Google search and found this https://github.com/skywind3000/vim-quickui
Not mentioned in the article is JetBrains CLion. Best C/C++ IDE to come along in decades.
https://www.jetbrains.com/clion/
VS Code has been crashing at launch in Wayland since more than eight months ago:
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/37531
> There's a strange dance of IDEs coming and going, with their idiosyncracies and partial plugins.
The Language Server Protocol [1] is the best thing to happen to text editors. Any editor that speaks it gets IDE features. Now if only they'd adopt the Debug Adapter Protocol [2]...
[1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
[2] https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/
> There's a strange dance of IDEs coming and going, with their idiosyncracies and partial plugins.
The Language Server Protocol [1] is the best thing to happen to text editors. Any editor that speaks it gets IDE features. Now if only they'd adopt the Debug Adapter Protocol [2]...
[1] https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/
[2] https://microsoft.github.io/debug-adapter-protocol/
If you haven’t already, and I know this doesn’t hold up for GUI emacs or vim, but consider running them through https://mosh.org/
Perhaps it could be restructured to separate out the howto from the explanation to serve the reader’s intended use at the time as described here: https://diataxis.fr
i am working on such a thing myself at https://github.com/yazz/yazz. Also there are many other people trying to build something similar
Let's not forget Delphi and OptiPerl https://www.uptiv.com/free/optiperl/ Till date I have not seen any IDE that could reproduce its amazing box and line coding feature
The descendant of CCL runs on modern Intel Macs. (It also runs on Linux and Windows but without the IDE.) The modern IDE is quite a bit different from the original. In particular, it no longer has the interface builder. But it's still pretty good. It is now called Clozure Common Lisp (so the acronym is still CCL) and you can find it here:
https://ccl.clozure.com/
If you want to run the original that is a bit of a challenge, but still possible. The original was never ported directly to OS X so you have to run it either on old hardware or an emulator running some version of the original MacOS, or on an older Mac running Rosetta 1. In the latter case you will want to look for something called RMCL. Also be aware that Coral Common Lisp was renamed Macintosh Common Lisp (i.e. MCL) before it became Clozure Common Lisp (CCL again).
This looks like it might be a promising place to start:
https://github.com/binghe/mcl
If you need more help try this mailing list:
https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel
The descendant of CCL runs on modern Intel Macs. (It also runs on Linux and Windows but without the IDE.) The modern IDE is quite a bit different from the original. In particular, it no longer has the interface builder. But it's still pretty good. It is now called Clozure Common Lisp (so the acronym is still CCL) and you can find it here:
https://ccl.clozure.com/
If you want to run the original that is a bit of a challenge, but still possible. The original was never ported directly to OS X so you have to run it either on old hardware or an emulator running some version of the original MacOS, or on an older Mac running Rosetta 1. In the latter case you will want to look for something called RMCL. Also be aware that Coral Common Lisp was renamed Macintosh Common Lisp (i.e. MCL) before it became Clozure Common Lisp (CCL again).
This looks like it might be a promising place to start:
https://github.com/binghe/mcl
If you need more help try this mailing list:
https://lists.clozure.com/mailman/listinfo/openmcl-devel