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Funnily, my approach is somehow opposite. I run Emacs with all bells and whistles to write whatever language. With LSPs, you are now not married to a language-s
by nine_k 2y ago
Funnily, my approach is somehow opposite. I run Emacs with all bells and whistles to write whatever language. With LSPs, you are now not married to a language-specific IDE. As a developer, I just start Emacs in server mode and never shut it down.
Then I use emacsclient to edit all kinds of files. It loads instantly, handles any reasonable files, can access remote files when needed, and has all the tools I want handy.
OTOH the IDE features do not clutter anything: I have no tabs, no toolbars, no file trees — not until I ask for them.
- pinoy420 2y agoThat sounds like an academic exercise rather than anything practical
- nine_k 2y agoIt looks like the comment is posted to a wrong thread. (FTR, the setup above is used for practical, mostly commercial programming; I've left academia without even finishing my post-grad study, decades ago.)
- nativeit 2y agoI don’t believe they were referencing anything about literal higher education. In this context, saying something is an “academic exercise” is just a way of saying it’s being done more for one’s own edification, rather than any purely practical purposes.
- soraminazuki 2y agoIn what world does the topic of setting up an editor have any academic value?
- pinoy420 2y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/academic 3.b.
- alt227 2y agoObligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/378/ https://xkcd.com/378/
- fattybob 2y agoOk you made me laugh out loud in a local Coffee shop!!