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I already know what I want to type. Having something pop up with "suggestions", often obscuring the lines I need to read, is worthless to me at best and disrup

• EMM_386 5y ago
  > If I can't recall "x.somePropertyThatHasARidiculousNameIAlwaysForget" then there are other more serious problems. I just prefer to press less keys. It shouldn't obscure anything in a decent IDE. Often you are working with other people's code and having to "recall" every single property, method, etc declared is not practical, hence why I mentioned having to keep referring to the documentation for things you are not accessing very often. If I keep forgetting that a property is .lastname and not .lastName in a library I'm using I can just type "last" and press tab. This is even more crucial in dynamic languages like JS, where you will get a failure at runtime and not compile time. It doesn't make you any "less of a programmer", it makes you a more efficient one once you are used to it.