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If your effort spent on tools speeds up your time-to-stuff, then the assumptions embodied in 1) are invalid. Besides, with open source you have more than just
by sblom 14y ago
If your effort spent on tools speeds up your time-to-stuff, then the assumptions embodied in 1) are invalid.
Besides, with open source you have more than just the original developer on whom you can use cash to entice him to make your favorite changes.
- batista 14y ago>If your effort spent on tools speeds up your time-to-stuff, then the assumptions embodied in 1) are invalid. Effort spent on tools != effort spend on adding some feature I'd like on a programmer's editor. I could just switch to something better. Plus, you probably overestimate how more productive a tool like a programmer's editor makes you. The truth is an editor can make editing less repetitive, but it's not like an order of magnitude better. Not even 2x or 3x more productive. Thing is, there are very successful programmers using all kinds of editors, from Emacs and Vim to Eclipse (notch), to Textmate, to Notepad++. And tons of classic unix programs, including C and Unix itself, were written in ed or similar primitive editors.
- shurane 14y agoI'm going to be a bit pedantic: switching to another editor is also effort spent. Learning how to use Eclipse, IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Vim, Emacs, ed, etc. etc. Some stuff is simple (text input from a keyboard), but they each have their own weird incompatible little worlds.