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Yes. I think all professional programmers should be using as many tools as they can from day 1. Tools like linters, filewatchers mapped to tests, IDEs (or well

Yes. I think all professional programmers should be using as many tools as they can from day 1. Tools like linters, filewatchers mapped to tests, IDEs (or well equipped editors). All of these tools help drive code quality and productivity and thusly should be seen as much a part of their career as knowing the nuances of their choice language, design patterns or details about any other part of their stack.

dozzie 9y ago
...and then there we are with professional programmers who can't run javac without fully-blown IDE, don't know that you can package class files to a JAR to ship a program, and think that you need two dozen different tools with their quirky configuration to ship a trivial web page to present static text. No, programmers should start with the simplest tools and learn on concrete examples why and what for the more complex ones are needed (or that they are completely redundant and unnecessary).
- tudelo 9y ago
  That's just like, your opinion, man.