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Good point. They’re all just tools and patterns. The actual tools used _could_ save some time, but experience plus the capacity to reason about software is a bi

by jcpst 3y ago

Good point. They’re all just tools and patterns. The actual tools used _could_ save some time, but experience plus the capacity to reason about software is a bigger deal. The article just made me think of some devs that I’ve worked with that were obsessed with particular tooling (insert comment about a hammer and everything being a nail). I do keep an eye on emacs. It turned into mainly my org-mode editor, but the v29 article that hit the HN front page recently has me curious about trying more dev work with it.

Turskarama 3y ago
It might be possible to do anything with a chisel that you can do with a CNC machine, but that doesn't in any way mean either choice is as reasonable as the other. I just can't see a genuine reason to not use a real IDE and debugger. You can even fall back on the same tools you had before with them! Using a debugger doesn't mean you can't also use print statements, but if I could only have one I'd pick the debugger every time.