On: Ask HN: What Happened to Borland?

[markus_zhang]

I'm wondering if it's possible to retain the editor but use modern toolchain such as GCC? I guess it's definitely possible but how can I achieve that from WITHIN the editor?

[agumonkey → markus_zhang]

that's the whole issue, people mentioned borland c++ 3 being nicer than emacs, until you need to tweak it :)

[markus_zhang → agumonkey]

Agreed, we need an editor that is as flexible as possible. From that perspective VSCode serves a pretty good middle ground. It's programmable (but in Typescript that I don't like) and has tons of plugins, but it also has nice GUIs and such.