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NeXT vs. Sun: A 1991 Programming Productivity Demo

hoffman60613 · Demo · 18 min · 2011 · YouTube title: NeXT vs Sun
Why it's here

HN uses it as the canonical example of rapid application development and object-oriented tooling productivity, though many note it is biased marketing.

What it covers

A 1991 NeXT promotional video that stages a head-to-head programming contest between a NeXT computer and a Sun workstation. It shows NeXT's interface builder and object-oriented tooling producing an application far faster than traditional UNIX development.