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> But for some reason, our profession is infatuated with text files that make this best of both worlds impossible. Because people already have existing tools,
by cle 7y ago
> But for some reason, our profession is infatuated with text files that make this best of both worlds impossible.
Because people already have existing tools, lots of them. Text files are an easy way to support all of them. What kind of tooling do you propose that would immediately integrate with IntelliJ, Eclipse, NetBeans, emacs, vim, VSCode, Atom, Sublime, GitHub browsing, grep, etc.?
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoYes, but then you have people like the comment I was replying to who say that those tools must be inflexibly fixed when the language ships...and so those languages that expect less from tooling (like Go) are somehow better than those (like Java) that expect more. That the text should speak for itself well enough without tooling.