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(Ok, looking at your profile and your background, I must be missing something. You surely don't need 5 or 10 minute history of code to know what you are doing.
by blunte 6y ago
(Ok, looking at your profile and your background, I must be missing something. You surely don't need 5 or 10 minute history of code to know what you are doing.) Please help me understand what I am missing from this conversation!
- WalterGR 6y agoYou know what? Most of these ‘disagreements’ about coding workflow and tool choice in which one person is telling another person that they’re Doing It Wrong boil down to different strokes for different folks. This seems to be a fine example of that. (Though I must admit that consternation about how often someone presses Ctrl-Z is a bit lower level than I’m used to seeing.)
- saagarjha 6y agoA common example from my work: I’m doing layout code, so I need to clean up some constraints that are broken. Often this a fairly manual process where I change some code and run it to see how it does, and then adjust the code as needed. Sometimes I need to change my strategy (instead of manually pinning this view, I can put it in a stack view…) and this requires me to change a couple lines of code. Then I run it and it breaks in a way that makes me realize that this direction was a dead end, so now I want to go back to where I was five minutes ago. Or, sometimes this is the way I wanted to go but in the process of rewriting it I forgot to carry over a constraint, so I want to see how I was doing it before and pull out a line or two so I can include it in the new code.