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IDEs were a mistake, and you can see why and how if you have ever worked on a project where everyone except you is using VScode.
by nathias 5y ago
IDEs were a mistake, and you can see why and how if you have ever worked on a project where everyone except you is using VScode.
- mrweasel 5y agoI don't know if they are a mistake, but they certainly cover up a lot of cruft, which should have been handled. We now have languages which can't really be used without an IDE, like C# or Java. That in turn result in programmers who can't actually program very well. I started seeing it way back in 2007, where some coworkers basically just used tab-completion in Visual Studio until types matched what a method required, rather than sitting down and doing actual design.
- nathias 5y agoThis point is exactly what I mean, IDE bloat keeps creeping into the codebase and other tools, making parts of IDE a hard dependancy. I'm seeing that happen with VSCode where people are polluting the codebase so VSCode can work.