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All these anti-IDE rants strike me as coming from people who have never actually used an IDE beyond "oh it's an editor with an autocomplete".
by dmitriid 5y ago
All these anti-IDE rants strike me as coming from people who have never actually used an IDE beyond "oh it's an editor with an autocomplete".
- thrower123 5y agoThey take pride in their masochism
- userbinator 5y agoIt's called exercise. Plenty of people do a lot of physical exercise when they could be content to stay still, but it's good for health. In this case, mental exercise keeps the brain healthy.
- dmitriid 5y agoTime you spend fiddling with tools trying to replicate a tiny portion of what an IDE offers can be spent actually doing mental exercises to keep your brain healthy.
- thrower123 5y agoIt's called working smart, not working hard. I would absolutely fire someone who refused to use the mechanized tree harvester I provided and insisted on felling trees with an axe, and that's about where I stand with respect to insisting on using PDP-10 era text editors over an IDE.
- __marvin_the__ 5y agoDefinitely this. I was a long time Notepad++ fan but immediately changed tune soon as I tried VS Code.
- EdwardDiego 5y agoTo be fair, he's spent most of his time coding in Perl. Perl is notorious to parse.