u/oilshellin r/ProgrammingLanguages • Recommends
On “It's the programming environment, not the programming language”
…easy-to-use.
This environment has received tons of polish over 30 years, has low latency, can be installed anywhere, can be used to program embedded devices, etc.
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As an anecdote I noticed that George Hotz uses this same combo, and he's relatively young (i.e. most people of that generation do not use tmux + vim + bash as far as I know.)
link to this video
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Hotz
He is definitely a fast programmer (famous for iOS and PS3 jailbreaks).
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And the other comment in this thread is sort of complementary: rustfmt, cargo, etc. are all command line tools used from a shell. The shell UI is primitive, but it's fast and predictable, and integrates with huge numb…