DConf 2013 Day 3 Talk 1: Metaprogramming in the Real World by Don Clugston

[Walter Bright]

On 6/13/2013 2:19 AM, Peter Alexander wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 June 2013 at 09:06:00 UTC, Don wrote:
>> Mono-D and Eclipse DDT both have major problems with long pauses while typing
>> (eg 15 seconds unresponsive) and crashes. Both of them even have "modules of
>> death" where just viewing the file will cause a crash. If you're unlucky
>> enough to get one of those open in your default workspace file, the IDE will
>> crash at startup...
>
> That doesn't surprise me.
>
> I really do highly recommend Sublime Text. It was created by a former game dev,
> and he really, really cares about performance. I've opened binary files in it
> that are hundreds of megs and it doesn't even flinch. Just loads it up, and then
> you can scroll through it or jump around at full speed with no pauses or
> momentary glitches. I can't recommend it highly enough.

Back in the bad old DOS days, there were many code editors that worked 
instantly. No perceptible delays at all. I find it ironic that today, with 
machines 1000 times faster, some vendors consider it acceptable to have 15 
second delays.