I think you should be capable of programming in notepad.exe. Not because it’s a test of skill or improves your understanding or whatever… but because the IDE sh

I think you should be capable of programming in notepad.exe. Not because it’s a test of skill or improves your understanding or whatever… but because the IDE shouldn’t be able to do anything you can’t do yourself (slowly). If you actually understand it well, the IDE is a boon, not a necessity. The mistake with these kinds of articles is arguing that because you should be able to work without an IDE, then it’s best to work without an IDE — I don’t know where this leap of logic comes from, but afaict is never a good argument, and the HN counter arguments are just as uninteresting