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> I remember one job I had where I didn’t need an IDE all that often and I would spend nearly as much time configuring Eclipse again upon the next time I came t
by cxr 3y ago
> I remember one job I had where I didn’t need an IDE all that often and I would spend nearly as much time configuring Eclipse again upon the next time I came to use it, as I was spending time writing code in it.
So basically the same as setting up and configuring a development environment today, except that nowadays it's a lot more centered around the command line and involves a bunch of disparate, half-documented packages/tools from GitHub (and that also inexplicably require 10 to 1000 times more space and clock cycles).
- hnlmorg 3y agoThe “I” part of IDE stands for “integrated” whereas what you’re describing is just a development environment without any integration into your text editor. That all said, I have found VSC to be piss poor for tempting out new projects. And some ecosystems like TypeScript really do need a lot of boilerplate before you can ever start on a “hello world” application.