Sounds nice for sure.

And no-one remembered Loom..

Thumb drives in the early 2000s weren't all that ubiquitous to put it mildly.

Neither was carrying around one's dev environment entire or partial.

You're quite an early adopter.

Back in the early '90s, an envelope was delivered to me containing a physical 3.5 inch diskette. The contents was a Smalltalk/V 286 image file. A bug had been found in a program I'd written a couple of years earlier.

The client had saved the program state (including the full dev environment) at the bug (and exported their current data to CSV files, just in case). I stepped into the debugger, fixed the problem, saved the new image file to a 3.5 inch diskette, went to the post office and sent it back to them.

Of course they had continued working but I don't recall which approach they took to merging their new data with the corrected program.

The past is a foreign country …

Nice.

Too bad 99% of real world (c)(tm) workloads don't look kindly on hauling not only a debugger but "the full dev environment" in every product shipped out there...

A blinding setup otherwise ngl.

We carried our dev environment in floppies, then ZIP disks, then external disks.

I started doing that with Turbo Pascal + MS-DOS 3.3 on HD floppies.

OP just jummped in when thumb drives started being available.

Good for you I guess.

Too bad the whole world isn't the MIT Campus/Silicon Valley.

The Chinese are most likely steaming ahead with the drone armies.

Laptop manufacturers aren't bribed to care about anything other than WIndoze??? Colour me shocked.

The consumer loses out but that's not something new either.

It's just half the Internet now after the late October blockage

In 2026 everyone could do worse than become a little bit more cynical

Do they have official instructions on how to setup (which URLs for STUN, etc - there are a couple required) TOR via Snowflake on desktop (bc on Android it all seems to be bundled inside Orbot)?

An ideal allegory for Rewrite Everything in Rust Syndrome^WDrive

another fabulous story https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/homeless-man...

A very timely endeavor indeed https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/typescript-native-...

That's about the Typescript compiler performance, not runtime. And this project doesn't even use Typescript does it?