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This seems to be what JetBrains has been betting on for a long time. Don't need to build a competent text editor if you can give management the right buzzwords.
by Nullabillity 2y ago
This seems to be what JetBrains has been betting on for a long time. Don't need to build a competent text editor if you can give management the right buzzwords.
- homebrewer 2y agoSince it's a tool for writing code and not prose, it does not have to be a competent text editor if it's a competent "AST editor", which it very much is. Much more so than any alternative, commercial or otherwise.
- sfn42 2y agoAre you implying that JetBrains ides are not competent? Compared to their alternatives like Eclipse, Visual Studio etc I think they're a huge step up. If you're a fan of simpler tools like vim, emacs or vscode etc I can see that they may not be to your taste, but I think their products are great. They're easy to get started with, powerful when you learn to use them, relatively bug free and I'd say they significantly boost my productivity.
- sourcepluck 2y agoI think that may very well be the first time ever I hear Emacs called a "simple tool"! :L
- adham-omran 2y agoIt could be said that all it does is one task, interpret Emacs Lisp, thus simple
- kazinator 2y agoBut then we would have difficulty explaining why that one task takes 300,000 lines of C.
- sfn42 2y agoI don't really know anything about it. In my mind it's similar to vim or vscode, a text editor where you can add lots of functionality but without the customization it probably doesn't do that much useful stuff for you.
- memsom 2y agoI have access to both an MSDN subscription paid through my employer and Rider that I pay for myself. I use Rider over VS2022. Why? VS2022 is slower and way more flaky with Android development. Rider has Resharper built in. I like that I can use 1 IDE vendor's products for everything I need (Pycharm, IntelliJ, Rider, RustRover and Android Studio.)