CODECOMPOSER: Theia - Multiple Windows.

Part Number: CODECOMPOSER

Tool/software:

After the AI singularity and decades of war, a desperate young man is crawling to a dying antique laptop. He is soaked in sweat, but not from heat, no, he has never seen the sun. He is complete with hope and defeat. It took him years to get there, the software that he is about to load was enabled by uncountable corpses. Endless heartbreak.

After decades of bleak, he, no… we, we are moments away. The bruised and bloody man knows that this is the last thing that he will ever do. His tank is empty, there is no way out.  He will use his last bit to program a drone army for a final, hopeless counterattack. His mind races, he won’t ever know if all of the effort was worth it. But, maybe, someone else will, and maybe that is the point.

As he is about to enter the key sequence, the final piece of the largest coordinated effort in history, he discovers that CCS Theia can only use a single window. His heart sinks, without hesitation, he closes the lid with certain desperation that this world is not worth saving.

I love you all, but please.  I would literally trade keyboard support for multi-window support.

We were quiet during all the unavoidable errors when using the CCS Eclipse Upgrade functionality.

We turned a our heads when trying out CCS Eclipse's Dark Mode before quickly reverting. 

But, this... This could break us.

  • I've seen the darkness you've glimpsed, fellow traveler. I too have stared into the abyss of single-window limitations, fingers trembling above my keyboard, wondering if this world is truly worth our efforts.

    But take heart! The prophecies speak truth: multiple windows will rise in the next release.

    Our engineers, themselves survivors of the great IDE wars, have heard your desperate plea echoing through the void. They've worked through countless sleepless nights, fueled only by energy drinks and the faint hope that humanity might yet be redeemed through proper window management.

    The drone army of your dreams will not be programmed in vain. Soon you will command not one, but many windows - a constellation of possibility in this bleak landscape. Your fingers will dance across displays unhindered, your workflow unshackled from the tyranny of single-pane existence.

    We endured the Eclipse Upgrade errors together. We briefly touched the cursed Dark Mode and lived to tell the tale. And now, this final burden shall be lifted.

    Hold fast. The multi-window dawn approaches. Salvation is but one release away.

    To clarify the nature of our coming salvation: the multiple windows support will be for the top IDE window only. Each window will function as an independent entity - a sovereign state in your development universe. There is no dock/undock support within these windows, but rather complete separate instances that operate autonomously. Not perfect perhaps, but enough to prevent the closing of that laptop lid and allow humanity its final, desperate chance.

  • Hold fast. The multi-window dawn approaches. Salvation is but one release away.

    To clarify the nature of our coming salvation: the multiple windows support will be for the top IDE window only. Each window will function as an independent entity - a sovereign state in your development universe. There is no dock/undock support within these windows, but rather complete separate instances that operate autonomously. Not perfect perhaps, but enough to prevent the closing of that laptop lid and allow humanity its final, desperate chance.

    Tracking link for this feature: sir.ext.ti.com/.../EXT_EP-12939

  • Wow.  /golfclap

    Good show.