> Thanks for your comment, as a VIM user who often turns up my nose at “slow” IDEs
Note that the mention of Vim by the original commenter is a red herring arising out of lack of familiarity with Wirth. In Wirth's eyes, even Vim would appear monstrous.
To appreciate Wirth's point requires realizing that his frame of reference is the Oberon (eco)system, which includes an OS, a mouse-driven graphical shell, a compiler, and the underlying CPU in an HDL all in a few tens of thousands of lines of code.
Note that the mention of Vim by the original commenter is a red herring arising out of lack of familiarity with Wirth. In Wirth's eyes, even Vim would appear monstrous.
To appreciate Wirth's point requires realizing that his frame of reference is the Oberon (eco)system, which includes an OS, a mouse-driven graphical shell, a compiler, and the underlying CPU in an HDL all in a few tens of thousands of lines of code.