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Coding in notepad or nano has been a great investment of my time. I don't need to learn any of these tools or read about any drama, I just type letters into th

Coding in notepad or nano has been a great investment of my time. I don't need to learn any of these tools or read about any drama, I just type letters into the screen and use my keyboard to move my pointer. That's it, if I need anything more complex to handle my codestring, I write code. But I have never needed to run a search and replace of a variable, both notepad and nano can do that. If I need anything more complex I do it manually. Anyone that does some exercise or has had a physical job knows that doing something 26 times in a row is basic stuff of any worthwile endeavor.

JoeOfTexas 2y ago
That just sounds painful if you work on large projects.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y ago
  Then again, maybe large projects are a bad idea.
  - broodbucket 2y ago
    They tend to have this nasty habit of running the entire world, though.
    - TZubiri 2y ago
      Rarely, it's mostly small projects, but many many many of them.
  - tobyhinloopen 2y ago
    Proudly written on a device run by a huge collection of huge projects
- jamesfinlayson 2y ago
  Yeah, early in my career I got by with gedit on Ubuntu but before too long a 700,000+ line PHP project with deep, deep inheritance trees showed up and I very much embraced an IDE.
  - TZubiri 2y ago
    Would running a command line debugger be too different from your approach. I would consider bothering with some static analysis tool, but definitely not with php or other runtime heavy languages.
vivzkestrel 2y ago
the only time i would ever consider doing that is when building a hello world application
isoprophlex 2y ago
Maybe also set your font to bright green Comic Sans while you're at it..?
bobim 2y ago
Use scite please, it's a match with your brutalist approach to development, but with some goodies. You won't regret.
- TZubiri 2y ago
  And corrupt the purity of my no-dependency development environment? No way. This approach extends to the application environment as well, download nothing, use Operating System tools, code the rest. Download nothing. Upload only.
  - bobim 2y ago
    It's not a download, it's a blessing. It's not corrupting, it's purifying. It's syntax highlighting for your strained eyes and block commenting for your sore fingers. It's peace. Take care.
poincaredisk 2y ago
I love your extreme position. I don't believe it could work for any of the projects I work on, and even if it would it would be a huge time sink and it would hold me back a lot. But I dream about a simpler world where I could just open nano on a dusted terminal in a basement, grab my printed copy of a OS manual, and code away.
offices 2y ago
>Anyone that ... has had a physical job knows that doing something 26 times in a row is basic stuff of any worthwile endeavor. I have. There were an awful lot of electric tools doing things that used to require manual work. And they were used even the old guys who were fighting against their broken bodies to work for long enough be able to retire.

JoeOfTexas 2y ago

That just sounds painful if you work on large projects.

__MatrixMan__ 2y ago
Then again, maybe large projects are a bad idea.
- broodbucket 2y ago
  They tend to have this nasty habit of running the entire world, though.
  - TZubiri 2y ago
    Rarely, it's mostly small projects, but many many many of them.
- tobyhinloopen 2y ago
  Proudly written on a device run by a huge collection of huge projects
jamesfinlayson 2y ago
Yeah, early in my career I got by with gedit on Ubuntu but before too long a 700,000+ line PHP project with deep, deep inheritance trees showed up and I very much embraced an IDE.
- TZubiri 2y ago
  Would running a command line debugger be too different from your approach. I would consider bothering with some static analysis tool, but definitely not with php or other runtime heavy languages.

vivzkestrel 2y ago

the only time i would ever consider doing that is when building a hello world application

isoprophlex 2y ago

Maybe also set your font to bright green Comic Sans while you're at it..?

bobim 2y ago

Use scite please, it's a match with your brutalist approach to development, but with some goodies. You won't regret.

TZubiri 2y ago
And corrupt the purity of my no-dependency development environment? No way. This approach extends to the application environment as well, download nothing, use Operating System tools, code the rest. Download nothing. Upload only.
- bobim 2y ago
  It's not a download, it's a blessing. It's not corrupting, it's purifying. It's syntax highlighting for your strained eyes and block commenting for your sore fingers. It's peace. Take care.

poincaredisk 2y ago

I love your extreme position. I don't believe it could work for any of the projects I work on, and even if it would it would be a huge time sink and it would hold me back a lot. But I dream about a simpler world where I could just open nano on a dusted terminal in a basement, grab my printed copy of a OS manual, and code away.

offices 2y ago

>Anyone that ... has had a physical job knows that doing something 26 times in a row is basic stuff of any worthwile endeavor. I have. There were an awful lot of electric tools doing things that used to require manual work. And they were used even the old guys who were fighting against their broken bodies to work for long enough be able to retire.