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Every piece, in one list
Thirty pieces across six rooms. The section pages lay the same material out with its photographs; this page is the flat list.
Room 1 · Green Screens
- Green ScreensAll of It in One Bitmapped WindowSmalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC by 1980 had an editor, a compiler and a debugger running inside a sin.
- Green ScreensTwo Editors, One Year, Still RunningEmacs (Stallman, 1976) and vi (Joy, 1976) shipped the same year from different buildings and set.
- Green ScreensThe Loop That Came Before the WindowThe Read-Eval-Print Loop predates the graphical IDE by decades — Lisp machines ran it in the 196.
- Green ScreensWhen the Compiler Did Not Make You WaitIncremental compilation — recompiling only what changed — was the engineering argument that made.
Room 2 · The Blue Box
- The Blue BoxForty-Nine Dollars and Ninety-Five CentsBorland's Turbo Pascal shipped in November 1983 at $49.95 when a Pascal compiler cost hundreds a.
- The Blue BoxThe Compiler That Stayed ResidentAnders Hejlsberg wrote Turbo Pascal's compiler in assembly language so it fit entirely in RAM — .
- The Blue BoxBorland, 1983 to 2009Borland went from a garage in Scotts Valley to the third-largest personal-computer software comp.
- The Blue BoxWhen C Stopped Costing a PaycheckTurbo C arrived in 1987 and applied the Turbo Pascal formula to C — a fast compiler, the blue ed.
- The Blue BoxThe Man Who Priced the CompilerPhilippe Kahn founded Borland and made the pricing decision that defined it — $49.95 against a m.
Room 3 · Form Designers
- Form DesignersThen the Form Became the ProgramVisual Basic 1.0 shipped in 1991 and made the UI form the primary artifact of development — you .
- Form DesignersDelphi's Palette and What You Could Drop onto a FormBorland Delphi arrived in February 1995 with a component model that let developers drop database.
- Form DesignersTwo Form Designers and What Each One Was ForVisual Basic and Delphi shared the visual-design paradigm but diverged sharply in what they let .
- Form DesignersInterface Builder Predated Xcode by Fifteen YearsInterface Builder was written for NeXTSTEP in 1988 — more than a decade before it became part of.
Room 4 · The Inventions
- The InventionsThe Colour Came Later Than You ThinkSyntax highlighting is now assumed in any editor, but its adoption in mainstream IDEs was gradua.
- The InventionsThe Program Stopped, and the Guess EndedThe integrated debugger — specifically the breakpoint that halted execution inside the editor — .
- The InventionsIntelliSense, 1996 — the Dropdown That Changed the ArgumentMicrosoft introduced IntelliSense in Visual Studio 97 (shipped 1996) as a dropdown list of compl.
- The InventionsRefactoring as a Named OperationMartin Fowler's 1999 book named refactoring as a catalogue of discrete, safe transformations — a.
- The InventionsOne Protocol, Every LanguageMicrosoft published the Language Server Protocol in 2016 alongside Visual Studio Code — a JSON-R.
- The InventionsWhen the Diff Moved Inside the EditorVersion control integration — showing a diff, staging a hunk, reading blame inline — moved from .
- The InventionsThe Marketplace Made the Editor a PlatformEclipse's plugin architecture (2001) established the pattern; the VS Code Marketplace (2015) sca.
Room 5 · The Builders
- The BuildersFrom Turbo Pascal to TypeScript — One Engineer's Through-LineAnders Hejlsberg wrote Turbo Pascal's compiler in the early 1980s, led Delphi's design at Borlan.
- The BuildersStallman's Editor Was Also a ManifestoRichard Stallman released the first version of GNU Emacs in 1985 under the GPL — an editor that .
- The BuildersErich Gamma Built Two of the Defining EditorsErich Gamma led the Eclipse project at IBM and later the Visual Studio Code team at Microsoft — .
- The BuildersJetBrains and the Argument That Refactoring Was Worth Paying ForSergey Dmitriev co-founded JetBrains in 2000 and shipped IntelliJ IDEA in 2001 with refactoring .
- The BuildersThe People Who Built the RoomAlan Kay conceived the Smalltalk environment as a medium, not a tool; Dan Ingalls wrote the byte.
Room 6 · On the Shelf
- On the ShelfIBM Gave It Away and That Was the PointIBM released Eclipse in November 2001 under the Common Public Licence and donated the project to.
- On the ShelfIntelliJ IDEA Arrived With a ClaimIntelliJ IDEA 1.0 shipped in January 2001 with automated refactoring — rename, extract, inline —.
- On the ShelfVisual Studio Code, 2015 — How a Free Editor WonMicrosoft shipped Visual Studio Code in April 2015 under the MIT licence, built on Electron, wit.
- On the ShelfAtom Was the Editor GitHub Built for ItselfGitHub released Atom in February 2014 as an open-source, web-technology editor built on what bec.
- On the ShelfThe Notebook Is Also an IDEJupyterLab extended the Jupyter notebook format into a full development environment — file brows.