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Yeah, why was the OP upvoted? Are there seriously that many people on Hacker News who have never used a real ide?
by dusklight 17y ago
Yeah, why was the OP upvoted? Are there seriously that many people on Hacker News who have never used a real ide?
- nostrademons 17y agoDepending on the language, IDEs are often not worth the trouble. I was big Eclipse and then Netbeans user when I did Java dev. When I started working in C++, I used Eclipse for about two days before I went back to vim. The Eclipse functions I depended upon most in Java - navigation, autocomplete, and refactoring - just didn't work all that well in C++. IntelliJ IDEA has exactly what the author implemented, but IntelliJ IDEA can also take about 5 minutes to start up, and takes up all your screen real estate. When you work in 5 languages on a regular basis and just want your editor to start up quickly, that can be quite a pain.