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No snippets, no LLMs, no autocomplete.
by x3n0ph3n3 2y ago
No snippets, no LLMs, no autocomplete.
- senectus1 2y agoAlmost Iron-Man coding by todays standards...
- js8 2y agoNot really. It's how it should be, except maybe autocomplete. If your code is predictable, it means it has low entropy and you are not using the right abstractions.
- someoneontenet 2y agoAt that point you may as well use a typewriter
- somenameforme 2y agoEep on the autocomplete. For me that's a must-have to enable clear code. Calling SomeFunctionWithAReallyDescriptiveName would get pretty painful pretty quickly if I had to type it out every time. No clue if it's true, but this is why I assumed a lot of older computing stuff is often abbreviated to the point of obfuscation.
- x3n0ph3n3 2y agoHow frequently do you actually have to type it out though? You can always copy-paste from nearby code that also calls it.
- bemmu 2y agoFor things you write a lot, learning how to quickly autocomplete them can pay off. I don't autocomplete everything, as picking things from a list is if not slower then at least more annoying than just typing that thing, but for common things it's helpful. For instance I type "game.ReplicatedStorage" all the time, so taking a few moments to learn that "game.reso<tab>" is the same has saved time. What upped my motivation to learned some shortcuts was switching from one keyboard layout to another (qwerty->colemak) and having 20-30 WPM for a week. Typing everything was so painful that I could doubly appreciate it.
- x3n0ph3n3 2y agoMaybe you should brush up on your typing proficiency.
- _hao 2y agoThis is the way!