Good article.

I'm more of a GUI guy who is contend with VSCode. I'm intrigued to learn Emacs but don't have the time for it.

Back in the 90s, however, Borland TUI was indeed the pinnacle. I remember I played with Turbo C for a while but did not learn anything, but it was fun just to use the IDE.

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bigstrat2003 17 hours ago | parent [-]

I think that GUI editors are just plain superior for doing serious work. I'm a Sublime guy myself, but really any GUI editor blows any text based option out of the water. The only good use case for text based editors these days is to quickly edit and save config files while ssh'ed into a server.

	▲	markus_zhang 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I heard people can be pretty productive in Emacs/Vim. My issue is that I’m not a great programmer, so 99% of the time is spent on reading code and figuring out the steps on paper. I’m sure TUI can be great for that purpose too, but GUI IDEs on multiple screens are on par at least.