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  • GNU Emacs

    Mirror of GNU Emacs

    Meanwhile, Richard Stallman at MIT took a different path with Emacs in 1985. Where Vi focused on speed and efficiency, Emacs pursued extensibility and customization. These contrasting philosophies - minimal versus expansive - would shape development tools for decades.

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  • Puts Debuggerer

    Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

    GitHub's Atom (2014) bet on web technologies, building an editor in JavaScript and making it infinitely hackable. Despite performance challenges with large files, Atom proved that web technologies could create powerful development tools.

  • Visual Studio Code

    Visual Studio Code

    When Erich Gamma's team at Microsoft created VS Code (2015), they learned from history. By combining Sublime's speed, Atom's extensibility, and IDE-level features, VS Code found the sweet spot between performance and functionality.

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