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"I have a genuine fear for Junior developers using ..." I have been around long enough to have heard the same about - writing code on the terminal as oposed t

"I have a genuine fear for Junior developers using ..." I have been around long enough to have heard the same about - writing code on the terminal as oposed to on paper (their coding will become just trail and error) - using debuggers (repeat until it works, they will never understand why it failed to begin with) - using IDE's (real programmers don't need crutches) - using languages with extensive standard libraries (how can they ever understand their code if they didn't write their own dictionary) - using domain frameworks (TF is for people incapable of grokking NN's) - ... It's most often not the tool that is producing bad programmers, it's bad programmers holding it wrong ;)

jamil7 3y ago
Yeah I tend to agree. I also feel like the majority of my deeper software knowledge has come from reading/modifying existing code, debugging and reverse engineering rather than actually writing code.
marginalia_nu 3y ago
I think it's kind of right though. Like we're in the midst of a generation of developers most of whom can't seem to be productive without stackoverflow or Google open in a tab somewhere.
DonHopkins 3y ago
From the HN discussion about the video of "A Conversation with Language Creators: Guido, James, Anders and Larry" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19568381 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19568381 >James Gosling wants to punch the "Real Men Use VI" people. >"I think IDEs make language developers lazy." -Larry Wall >"IDEs let me get a lot more done a lot faster. I mean I'm not -- I -- I -- I -- I -- I'm really not into proving my manhood. I'm into getting things done." -James Gosling