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A subtle shift that happened in the world of programming between the 1990's and the 2010's is that, these days, using a proprietary IDE, language and toolchain is kind of rare, whereas it was more common once? Borland (now Embarcadero) Delphi and C++ Builder still exist!
After being burned by proprietary stuff before, we are not inclined to use another of these, but honestly, the Embarcadero/Borland world of Delphi and C++ Builder, or one of those many commercial BASIC variants, must be pretty comfy?
Wait, what am I saying? The proprietary, commercial IDE/toolchain/language combo seemingly never went away if you're a game developer! That's exactly what Unity and GameMaker: Studio are. Oh god. This is the tragedy of open-source creative software again, isn't it.
@hikari I feel like this is where AI agents are nudging people back that way? Open or semi-open IDE but talking to a fully closed AI model that doesn’t run on your own machine