Related, Free Pascal has a text-mode IDE that's supported on most modern platforms.

https://www.freepascal.org

It looks pretty much identical to the Turbo Pascal IDE for anyone that's feeling nostalgic and wants to write some yellow on dark blue code.

Even better - Free Pascal comes with Free Vision, which is mostly compatible with Turbo Vision. Turbo Vision was the toolkit Borland provided that would let you write your own text-mode GUI apps using the same widgets used to build the Turbo Pascal IDE.

And it was a quite good guide into the world of OOP programming.

I don't think the Free Pascal IDE is related to this

If you check the website demos and the "dos.h" source on GitHub, this is a library for making GUI apps whose UI has the appearance of being made with MS-DOS.

Unless I am misunderstanding the connection you're trying to make, which is also possible

It's related in the sense of both having an appeal to DOS nostalgia.

Even while running a BBS in the background, too!

An even earlier example is The Prisoner episode "Many Happy Returns". Almost half of the episode is without dialogue.

The Public Domain Korn Shell version 5.2.14.

A rock solid shell that hasn't been (or needed to be) updated in nearly 20 years.

nvALT, which is a fork of the Notational Velocity note-taking app on OSX.

Rock solid and very fast!

nv is already simple and very fast. I found nvAlt rather buggy

Just curious, but what bugs have you encountered in nvAlt? I switched over for the Collapse Note List function.

Yes, I used The Games Factory for many years! It would also create stand-alone installers that would fit in a floppy.

Charlie Lee of Litecoin shows how it should be done simply:

https://medium.com/@SatoshiLite/satoshilite-1e2dad89a017

Possibly because Rob Pike is not a fan of syntax highlighting, calling it juvenile.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/golang-nuts/hJHCAaiL0s...

Wow, his second response is really demeaning. Or maybe it's just a shock to me after hanging out in really friendly communities (Elixir etc.) for a while...

On the whole I've found the golang community to be quite positive and enforcing good norms about crappy behavior. I wouldn't assume too much from a post Rob made 4 years ago.

Pike literally quoted a passage from the bible:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_13

I won't argue that it was in good taste.

If by "literally quoted", you mean paraphrased... Or is this just another case where literally doesn't mean literally?

No. Sorry. I should have linked to the NASB translation, which was the source of his (literal) quote.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+1...

I feel bad for the person who wanted it on := lines because of sight issues.

Maybe it has to do something with the fact that Go's grammar is modest in size, being only 25 keywords. Compare that with C99 - 37, C++11 - 84, Rust 52 etc.

Sam user if that counts.

Yes, I was confused by this as well. I think this author was looking for something bearish, and went with Ben anyway.