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> Most of what programmers do is a lot of navigation and text manipulation correct? Possibly I'm a terrible programmer, but most of what I do is thinking and l
by shantly 7y ago
> Most of what programmers do is a lot of navigation and text manipulation correct?
Possibly I'm a terrible programmer, but most of what I do is thinking and looking shit up. Entering or modifying code, and navigating non-linearly within one file is like... a couple percent of what I do on an average day? Maybe 5% tops? Some days it may get as high as 20% of my time. Maybe.
[EDIT] add "communicating", broadly, to the list of things I do a lot of at work that's not editing code.
- benji-york 7y agoYes and no. Feedback cycles are important. It's better for a test to fail than to notice a bug in production. It's also better for you to be able to get that thought from your head to the file in 3 seconds instead of 10.
- KlayySOC 7y agoDoesn't a modern IDE with context aware autocomplete help more with that than slightly faster text editing? Perhaps it also depends on what kind of development you're doing