>> making lots of improvements to K-9

Such as...?

>> As engineers, we are, by nature, attracted to novel solutions

If the context is professional work, then no, I'm afraid. I'm always looking for least suprising, well-understood way. After all, I'm working on a team.

But for personal work, well why not?

NPP is one of the must have apps when I install a Windows system. Now I mostly work on Mac... feel happy with CudaText: https://cudatext.github.io/

Embarcadero's improved fork: https://www.embarcadero.com/free-tools/dev-cpp

I'm on M2 Mac (Sonoma 14.5). How to run this?

./anvil

[1] 25270 killed ./anvil

chmod +x, xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine etc don't work.

I'm a mobile app developer. Mobility is preferrable. And I don't need the most powerful dev machine.

For most (or lots of cases), it's easily readable, printable, and searchable.

I'm not interested in cutting-edge smartphones anymore. Not sure what's the advantage because my use cases are pretty minimalists:

Whatsapp, email, social medias, online shopping, mobile banking, and a little bit of photo editing.

On the other side, cutting edge PC is a way more attractive thing cause it allows you to play 3D-intensive games on max setting, for example.

Yep. But I can work practically everywhere with my laptop (I'm a mobile app dev and ocassional back-end dev).

No question PC is still #1 for upgradibility. If I'm an avid gamer or a video editor, then yes definitely will use PC, instead.

"I’d like to use a (somewhat) wider range of basic symbols than whatever we had in ASCII last century. Even allowing comparison operators like ≤, <, ≠ and = that align consistently would be a useful start"

That's already doable on vim/nvim. BTW, I'm on macOS, and install them via macport. Or perhaps because I already installed some specific fonts....