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It is interesting but there is very simple lesson to learn: terminal and decent editor is all you need. I know a lot of people who are still afraid of terminal
by daliusd 15y ago
It is interesting but there is very simple lesson to learn: terminal and decent editor is all you need. I know a lot of people who are still afraid of terminal (they can't live without TortoiseWhatever and are not familiar with basic terminal commands) and can't live without fancy development environments (like Visual Studio) after years of development. Even more - terminal + editor allows developer to switch between platforms almost without problem (e.g. my usual week consists of developing completely different projects for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux).
After all David killed Goliath with sling. What's wrong with the fact that magic things happens with dumb tools?
- edanm 15y ago"[A] [T]erminal and decent editor is all you need." Just to give the other side of the "argument": "all you need" isn't something to strive for. An environment which makes you the most productive is what most people strive for, not the minimum environment to be somewhat productive. IDEs make a lot of people a whole lot faster, and for good reason - smart people have worked really hard to make it that way. (I mostly use editors and not IDEs these days, but the allure of good IDEs is strong.)
- sjs 15y agoYup. After writing Java for Android in IDEA 10 CE for a few months I die a little inside every time I want to rename a function in C or JavaScript in TextMate. I should check if anyone has used js2-mode to write some refactoring functions for JavaScript in Emacs. What good cross-platform IDEs do people use for C and JavaScript?