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Vim 8.0 Released! (google.com)
Long-time Slashdot reader MrKaos writes: The venerable and essential vim has had it's first major release in 10 years. Lots of new and interesting features including, vim script improvements, JSON support, messages exchange with background processes, a test framework and a bunch of Windows DirectX compatibility improvements. A package manager has been added to handle the ever-growing plug-in library, start-up changes and support for a lot of old platforms has been dropped. Many Vimprovements!
Vim's 8.0 release was actually September 12th. Emacs 25.1 came out yesterday, September 17th.
Slashdot is just incredibly slow. :)
As a crusty old developer myself, it seems clear that "clean/simple/partitioned" are no longer in fashion, and most younger developers not only don't see anything wrong with pulling every fucking package dependency they can into everything, they feel it somehow makes them look smarter or something.
As a crusty old, old programmer myself, often it's the old eyeballs that let me down. My brain is willing to keep working by the eyestrain tells me I have to take a break.
So better rendering is a good thing, unless it's an attempt at rendering that makes things pretty but harder to read.
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This just oozes "stop-liking-what-I-don't-like".
So you don't like xkcd? Fine. It's easy enough to ignore.
There are plenty of popular forms of humor that don't amuse me much but I would get no satisfaction from going into threads and telling people that whatever they enjoyed was actually crap. They wouldn't be convinced anyway. They think I was a troll or a fool.
I don't think The Onion is funny, I grew bored with Seinfeld in the '90s and now I can't stand him, I like Monty Python, but how many times do we have to see a reference to it in a thread before it gets old? It's not dead yet, it's just pining for the fjords, right?
There is some humor that I like that a lot of people don't find funny either. There's no point in me trying to convince them that it's funny - or in the case of some xkcd comics explain it to them.
Imagine explaining the linked xkcd strip to someone whose only technical knowledge involved Facebook and Snapchat. Even if you can explain it to them at best their response will be "Meh".