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Prescriptive software would be much better for beginners and for those who rarely use the tools and just want to get the job done. I think that is why things l
by pca006132 6y ago
Prescriptive software would be much better for beginners and for those who rarely use the tools and just want to get the job done.
I think that is why things like VSCode, emacs framework, get popular. Most of us don't want to spend a long time configuring the tools, but just get the job done. For most of us, a sane default is more than enough.
- sumtechguy 6y agoI am currently fighting one of these 'sane defaults'. It is sane for one of the programs the output data goes into. Yet for a different program (and per spec) it is a different default expected. Hey they have a spot to change that default (sweet!). Except all of the plugins, and mainline code itself does not use that (ugh!). It is a ranges from hard coded, to using a different default, to using the configurable one. So here I am writing yet another plugin to override what these other plugins did. Usually like you said though 99.9% of the time it is just fine the way it is.
- rightbyte 6y ago> emacs framework ... don't want to spend a long time configuring the tools Are you sarcastic? Edit: Extended quote
- exdsq 6y agoTo be honest even my vscode config is fairly large. I think the write comparison would be with PyCharm/Goland/etc - ‘proper’ IDEs with everything built in.
- anaerobicover 6y agoYou dropped the critical word from that quote, "framework". The point they're making is that people use Emacs frameworks like Doom, Prelude, Spacemacs... to lessen the configuration they do compared to "plain" Emacs.
- rightbyte 6y agoAh ok didn't make that connection.