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When I first started my career, I used vi (not even vim) on Solaris terminals to develop and learn Perl, which I still know and love 20+ years later. I believe
by temporallobe 5y ago
When I first started my career, I used vi (not even vim) on Solaris terminals to develop and learn Perl, which I still know and love 20+ years later. I believe that I never would have learned it so deeply if I had used an IDE with syntax highlighting, autocomplete and the other various nanny features. That said, my life would be a whole lot more difficult if not for modern IDEs (which I currently use for Java, TypeScript, Clojure, Ruby, etc.), and at this point in my career, I can’t see myself going back to bare-bones editors. However, I have started using VSCode more often (when it makes sense to do so) - this seems to be a good compromise between a full-fledged IDE and a plain text editor, although you could certainly configure VSCode in such a way that it is basically an IDE.