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my little cousin wants to learn the programming. Is there an editor that has slimejs-like functionality where you can edit functions and send them to a repl like in emacs? I don't want to teach him emacs though because even though I like it, It doesn't work well on windows and It will probably be obsolete by lightable or something in a few years.

Vi and Emacs will never go extinct. There will always be kids trying to imitate the respected aging wizards.

Give him 24h to back up his stuff, then zero out the hard disk and install Debian testing, XFCE and Emacs.

>>3
Debian testing
enjoy your Windows-quality security

>>4
[citation needed]

>>4
Arch and Ubuntu, I'd understand, but Debian testing?  Why?

>>6
If you think ubuntu, after all of Shuttleworth/Cannonical's shit, is a serious option for anyone who cares about anything anymore..... You're beyond hope.

Arch is poser shit btw. "Oh man, I installed my arch box, I'm so fucking l33t, look at me".... yeah, please. Arch's users are some of the worst linux users I've ever been near and they're usually retarded too.

Debian testing, however, is not influinced by any corporation or shit (ubuntu), is flexible enough that you can use any DE and so on (unlike ubuntu), has a very good package manager, has "up to date enough" packages, and doesn't require you to focus on the OS.

>>6
Ubuntu pulls from Debian unstable and silently removes 'obsoleted' (eg. renamed—no it doesn't replace them) packages installed on your system during updates.

>>4-6
Testing is potentially a very bad choice for security for several reasons. First, because new builds can't enter testing until they've been simmered and screened for regressions, upstream security fixes may be delayed for several weeks. The security team tries to push the most important fixes through the fence, but they are always short staffed and official support commitments come and go.

Second, a few of the Debian packagers are dangerous fools who apply patches willy nilly and break things. Does anyone remember the maintainer who broke OpenSSL for half the planet? He still has his job...

>>1
ee
then move the cousin to vim

Also, there is stupid emacs for windows. I used XEmacs 5 years ago because of school:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/windows/ntemacs.html

There's also vim:
http://portableapps.com/apps/development/gvim_portable

I'd still place the cousin on OpenBSD to learn real programs and environments. A fresh install is always a great learning experience.

>>7
Arch is poser shit btw. "Oh man, I installed my arch box, I'm so fucking l33t, look at me".... yeah, please. Arch's users are some of the worst linux users I've ever been near and they're usually retarded too.
I installed and use ArchLinux and I never brag about it. I also use a normal window manager and not some tiling shit.

>>11
YHBT

>>11
Arch is for stuff gentoo can't do right.
YHBST

>>13
Since when Arch can do things Gentoo can't?

>>11
Since when twm is shit? I prefer it over your bloated crap like KDE.