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maybe it's because I started coding in the 80's but I've been doing this "autocomplete" and "full syntactical parsing in the background as you type" thing in my
by mkramlich 15y ago
maybe it's because I started coding in the 80's but I've been doing this "autocomplete" and "full syntactical parsing in the background as you type" thing in my brain. Along with my ability to refactor "bareback" it may be why I prefer tools like vim over IDE's.
- Ives 15y agoNot all of us have the comfort of permanently working in a programming language we're familiar with. For languages I know pretty well, like C++, I only use vim. But for languages I hardly ever use and only if I have to, a "real" IDE can greatly improve my speed of development.
- jrockway 15y agoWhat language is so different from the ones that your familiar with that you need tools? Autocomplete doesn't help you learn a language, it just auto-types the names of methods that happen to be available in a certain class. It doesn't tell you that you've selected the right class or right method on that class, though. That requires understanding of the code you're writing and the code you're using. And at that point, you might as well be using vim. Typing is easy. Programming is hard. Optimize for programming.