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Peak IDE happened in 1998 with Visual Studio 6 for C++, and it had been down hill from there. Everything available today (and since then) is clunky in comparison. I kept using it until 2007 and had to switch because of the need to move to 64-but.

Computers today are about 20 times faster, and have 20 times more memory - and yet, all IDEs are clunky. VS6 on the common hardware of the time was ultra responsive.

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Using a 1998 application in 2007 must have felt very snappy sure.

I remember using it in 1998, with little memory on spinning rust. It was clunky as hell and very clueless. Big projects took ages to be built. Crashes were so frequent it was ridiculous.

It definitely had crashes, especially with C++ intellisense - visual assist was a must for crashes (and the functionality was also nice).

I had been using it since 1998 on reasonable hardware. It was always reasonable for me.

Peak IDE was Turbo Pascal 5. Change my mind!

It's not worth changing, because you never experienced Symantec THINK C on System 7 in 1999, back before macs were cool :P

Although in my defense Macs -especially ones powerful enough to be fun - were unattainable expensive for me from childhood through the late 90s.

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