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		hugi on Dec 28, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IDEs we had 30 years ago Agreed. And there's simply nothing that comes close to the power of the workspace when working on multiple projects that share dependencies.

pjmlp on Dec 28, 2023 [–]

The original idea was to replicate the Smalltalk image approach, but backed by a virtual filesystem instead.

Eclipse is Visual Age for Smalltalk reborn, after all.

It was common to have plugins corrupt its metada, but somehow it finally became quite stable.

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