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Nearly 40 years here — I exclusively use IDEs and debuggers and have done so since the early 1990s. Computers aren’t digital pencil and paper. They’re levers f
by jiggawatts 3y ago
Nearly 40 years here — I exclusively use IDEs and debuggers and have done so since the early 1990s.
Computers aren’t digital pencil and paper. They’re levers for the mind. If the 3 GHz processor just sits there idling, waiting patiently to copy some bytes from one buffer to another, it’s being wasted. It could be checking the syntax, looking up documentation, or chasing memory references in the debugger so I don’t have to.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoIt's crazy that there seems to be only one good ide in all this. The Jetbrains ones.
- jiggawatts 3y agoI’ve used the Borland IDEs, JetBrains, Visual Studio, VS Code, and Eclipse. Of those all are fine except Eclipse. Though if I had to rate them I would put JetBrains IDEA at the top because the refactoring capabilities are so good.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoWell vs and vs code and eclipse are clunky and slow. Borland I remember back in the day used to be pretty clunky too.
- devoutsalsa 3y agoI’ve used both debuggers and print/log statements. More recently, I’ve learned the value of even seeing if I’m in the right part of the code by inserting 1 / 0 (or any way to raise an exception if 1 / 0 doesn’t blow things up). If I can’t even get a bad arithmetic error, I don’t need to worry about the rest of it!
- RadiozRadioz 3y agoNot a constructive comment to the conversation, more an observation: It always amuses me when HN users play Top Trumps with age. Reminds me of the "32 year veteran distinguished engineer level at FAANG" [1]. It's like whoever's the oldest wins. Bonus points if you mention you're a parent and lack the free time to use the more pernickety tools. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36214735 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36214735