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direwolf20yesterday at 7:08 PM1 replyview on HN

Visual C++ 6 was the first C(++) compiler I used. I'm fairly certain it had auto completion (Intellisense).

Casey Muratori would point out the debugger ran faster on hardware from the era than modern versions run on today's hardware, though I don't have a link to the side–by–side video comparison.

Edit: Casey Muratori showing off the speed of visual studio 6 on a Pentium something after ranting about it: Jump to 36:08 in https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U — earlier section of the video is how it is today (or when the video was made)


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reactordevyesterday at 11:06 PM

absolutely! When launching my editor today, it phones home, it checks location, it does everything that an editor SHOULDN'T DO. Not to mention the extensions...

Software today is a horrible bloated mess on top of horrible bloated messes.