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hypendevtoday at 9:47 AM1 replyview on HN

And, importantly, this was 2008.

Most of the modern software tooling you have today wasn't available back then, from great IDE's to popular libraries, writing software in 2008 was a different beast compared to today.


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Epa095today at 9:54 AM

Tja, besides LLMs I can't really see the major improvement todays IDEs and language combination brings over Eclipse+Java. Great docs, good autocomplete, good compiler feedback.

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