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> I think part of my question was related to your part 1. Are people genuinely remembering the entire API surface of their application, their language's standar
by fluffything 7y ago
> I think part of my question was related to your part 1. Are people genuinely remembering the entire API surface of their application, their language's standard library and all 3rd party dependencies for their code when using a text-mode editor like Vim?
No. For example, I use emacs, and when I want to use an API for a type I just... grep for the type name, find its file, and skim its APIs, which takes me a couple of seconds but I am able to find what I want in seconds on code bases with multiple millions of lines of code.
Every year people try IntelliJ, or some other IDE, with better auto completion support. After half a day full of getting it to crash, they just go back to vim or emacs, and wait till next year to try these IDEs again.