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When you have a good language, you don't need a good IDE.
by minsight 8y ago
When you have a good language, you don't need a good IDE.
- andrewflnr 8y agoAlternatively, when you have a good IDE, you don't need a good language, freeing you to optimize other concerns like ecosystem. Not defending crappy languages, just saying that argument cuts both ways.
- Koshkin 8y agoThis is like saying that if you have sharp nails you do not need a hammer. (IDEs can be, and are, extremely helpful; even simple text editors like nano or SciTE try to include some of the features normally found in an IDE.)
- zvrba 8y agoWhen you have good memory, you don't need to google anything twice.
- int_19h 8y agoI've noticed a curious pattern: some brand new languages have communities expressing similar sentiment initially, but then if/when the language becomes popular and IDEs for it appear, you see quite a few people being excited about simple things that those IDEs can do (and could do for other languages decades ago), like debugging or code completion.