Acme: The Un-Terminal
Summary
The article presents Acme as a text-based integrated development environment (IDE) that leverages a consistent, text-first interface to integrate Unix tools via the 9P protocol. It discusses the strengths of a lightweight, highly interoperable environment, and contrasts it with modern GUI-centric IDEs, noting Acme's lack of configuration and its potential for simplifying workflows. It also covers Acme's weaknesses, such as missing syntax highlighting, and argues for a broader design philosophy around text-based interactions.