Some of it is nostalgia. Some things it genuinely did better -- CodeWarrior&#x27;s inline ASM syntax kicked the shit out of the GCC equivalent we&#x27;re stuck with today.<p>And some of it is highly subjective: there was a simplicity to the old CodeWarrior UI in pre-OS X MacOS. You had a separate project window and a text editor window for every file you were editing. It was clean. It was uncluttered. It wasn&#x27;t 300 tabs, sidebars, and top bars jammed into one God Window to Rule Them All.<p>It kept out of your way and did its job quietly.