It's cool to see other hackers "switch off the targeting computer". I used Emacs for a while with $TERM set to vt100, which masked much of the highlighting. To

It's cool to see other hackers "switch off the targeting computer". I used Emacs for a while with $TERM set to vt100, which masked much of the highlighting. To this day I don't use autocomplete, because I don't want a video game popping up in my FOV while I'm coding; and because using the full name of classes, functions, and methods helps me remember them better and how they fit together. I have this idea that IDE features are designed to make programming more normie-friendly and approachable; and that neurodiverse hackers like myself, who used to predominate back in the 70s and 80s, just find them distracting. There's probably some neurodiversity specificity in there, but recently the idea got some support from this study: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_9 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-35017-7_... Which was also covered on Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721055 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36721055 I keep dreading the day when I finally have to switch to Visual Studio Code, either because work requires it or there's just no longer adequate tooling in anything else. I will be completely at sixes and sevens compared to Emacs or even vim.