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Even without any editor features from the last 20 years (like auto-adding and auto-closing braces), typing semicolons and curly braces should not end up taking
by gkbrk 3y ago
Even without any editor features from the last 20 years (like auto-adding and auto-closing braces), typing semicolons and curly braces should not end up taking a significant portion of time.
- Kim_Bruning 3y agoTyping doesn't take a significant portion of a programmer's time anyway. Automation on that half of the work is only so useful. Checking the code on your screen against your internal mental model does take varying amounts of time. It depends on language syntax and how your mind works. Different programmers internally think in different ways, it turns out. In my case I found that I tend to look at the indentation primarily, and then I check parentheses and semicolons against the indentation. (So in my case python lets me skip an entire step.)
- illiac786 3y agoIt used to depend on your keyboard layout I will say. But nowadays it's autocompleted anyway.