> To win in Unix land, C# needs to be editable in a plain text editor. This isn’t a C# issue, it’s dynamic vs static typing issue. You can edit C# in any text

> To win in Unix land, C# needs to be editable in a plain text editor. This isn’t a C# issue, it’s dynamic vs static typing issue. You can edit C# in any text editor (obviously) but you don’t get all benefits a good IDE gives you. Statically typed languages in general allow IDEs to provide a wealth of benefits that make writing and maintaining code much easier. With the IDE one can be much more productive. This is also possible for dynamically typed languages but in practice they’re not at the same level. So yeah write your little dynamically typed language scripts in vim. The first thing I’m doing for a large C++ project is put it in an IDE. Not to build it but to explore it and understand it, ymmv