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How many hours am I going to spend making my text editor work with this new problem? How long would it take to learn the new tool sufficiently to be reasonably
by EdwardDiego 4y ago
How many hours am I going to spend making my text editor work with this new problem? How long would it take to learn the new tool sufficiently to be reasonably effective?
I always remember a coworker who was determined to use Emacs on our Java codebase. He spent three months trying to get functionality equivalent to 2010 Eclipse (I was one of the IDEA hipsters in the company back then), and failed. Hard.
I always thought that in 3 months,n if he'd applied that effort to Eclipse, he'd probably be contributing patches to it.
- knewter 4y agoI have learned a multitude of tools. I have used vim/nvim since 2005. Prior to that, visual studio for a few years as a .net developer. I have sought to incorporate vim wherever I could because my muscle memory demands it for productivity. It's not from a lack of learning tools.