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> do you rather see a positive or a negative correlation between the usage of high level tools and developer productivity? Absolutely none whatsoever. If anyth
by sho 8y ago
> do you rather see a positive or a negative correlation between the usage of high level tools and developer productivity?
Absolutely none whatsoever. If anything it's negative. I have never found "speed of editing" to be remotely correlated with good code or even productivity.
- johnny22 8y agomost people here aren't talking about speed of editing, but rather speed of code navigation. That way it's easier to figure out what's going on in larger codebases, or one even just one you're not familiar with.
- CzechTech 8y ago100% agreed. Talking about the speed of editing is completely missing the point. The value added by IDEs is not in the speed of writing text.
- CzechTech 8y agoWhile I totally agree with the "speed of editing" part, I can't imagine (well, I can, and it's awful) working on a "real" project in "real" business environment (by that I mean something that puts bread on the table, has tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of lines of code, has a lot of legacy code and was written by a dozen of programmers over the years) without an IDE. It's not even about linting or code completion, it's about being quickly able to ctrl+click to definition, peek at definition etc. Modern IDEs are so much more than just editors of text. In the age of Microsoft beginning to incorporate machine-learning assisted autocomplete people talk about emacs here... lmao, get the fuck out of here.