Brian Kernighan's Programming Setup | Lex Fridman

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Brian Kernighan is a professor of computer science at Princeton University. He co-authored the C Programming Language with Dennis Ritchie (creator of C) and has written a lot of books on programming, computers, and life including the Practice of Programming, the Go Programming Language, his latest UNIX: A History and a Memoir. He co-created AWK, the text processing language used by Linux folks like myself. He co-designed AMPL, an algebraic modeling language for large-scale optimization.
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[@optimisticfuture6808]

VI rocks. I wrote a windows version back in the 90’s as I was so frustrated with windows editors.

[@daverei1211]

Optimistic Future I wish modern editors have a VI comparability, every now and then I subconsciously do VI commands ...

[@BB-sd6sm]

Dave Rei truest thing I’ve ever seen

[@optimisticfuture6808]

Dave Rei me too! Haha. So efficient.

[@VinayKumar-vu3en]

@@daverei1211 but we do have vi improved plugins for modern editors, right!!

[@pguti778]

So lucky this guy named Lex to interview such a man!!!!

[@k4vms]

Nice VT-100 picture Ricky from IBM (and DEC)

[@gauravverma5692]

Even I know what is ed :-)

[@driggs7906]

Lex is a piper

[@MarquisDeSang]

He now use VS Code. Never trust a guy who use VS Code.

[@noslohcinkin]

I've had to use ed, hahahaaha, a good thing to have to do, once...

[@driggs7906]

Just read my brainwaves bruh, jk.

[@IgnacioStegmayer]

I can't believe you're only talking about console editors. He talks about doing C/C++/Python on emacs? I've worked with all 3 languages these last years and I do use vi but that's only when I'm doing quick changes (mostly config) to deployed systems. Do you really do the heavy coding in these editors instead of vstudio/vscode/sublime/atom/xcode? I guess it just goes to show how little experience 3 years is in this field

[@Golipillas]

Yes, it's not uncommon to see dev setups where vim/emacs is the main editor and used like an ide.

[@beast4000]

Emacs is also crazy extensible. I’ve never personally used it but there’s enough there that it could almost be your main OS.

[@petersilva037]

fwiw... I find IDE's disorienting, painful, and extremely distracting. I use vim for all editing, to produce both code (python and C) and documentation (mostly .rst) kept straight with git.

[@ianzen]

The great thing about console editors is that they have been around for a very long time, so it's reasonable to assume that they will be around for even more time. That makes learning them worth the time investment. The the community support around vim and emacs is also much more stable than modern editors. I remember a few years back, the editor that everyone was using is sublime text, nowadays I think it's probably vscode.

[@danilo2735]

@@ianzen vim and emacs also lost popularity. most new devs arent going for these ones so...

[@michael7v6]

Thumbs down for the click bait thumb. Come on lex.

[@joachim847]

THUMBS DOWN FOR EMACS 👎🏼

[@spearPYN]

Eight Megs And Constantly Swapping...

[@mynamejeff2880]

why ?