On: When users never use the features they asked for

[AmericanChopper]

Pretty much this.

A lot of the work would have been roughly equivalent to trying to de-minify some JS.

With a modern IDE the task would have been a lot easier. I don’t know if Eclipse had refactoring assistance built into back then, but if it did, I’d never even heard of the idea. I was sitting on not much more than a year of programming experience at the time.

[grujicd → AmericanChopper]

Eclipse had refactoring from the start. It was pretty advanced IDE for the time.

[pjmlp → grujicd]

It had to be, given that it was basically Visual Age for Smalltalk rewritten in Java.

Hence why it had, and still keeps it, a Smalltalk like code navigation.