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I agree completely and totally. A good programmer's text editor (e.g. vi or emacs) is far more general than an IDE, more easily extensible and rather more futu
by zeveb 11y ago
I agree completely and totally. A good programmer's text editor (e.g. vi or emacs) is far more general than an IDE, more easily extensible and rather more future-proof (folks will still be using emacs & vim in twenty years; will anyone be using Eclipse?).
Requiring an IDE is, to my mind, a symptom of a far-too-complex environment which will lead to breakage.
- CuriouslyC 11y agoPeople have been using eclipse for almost 15 years, and if they stop using it, it will be because there is a better IDE (see: IntelliJ). Things like smart auto-complete, click-to-definition, history/diff merge views and integrated build support/dependency management are a huge productivity win.