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I disagree with pretty much every assertion in this article's rant. Advanced visual editors like Visual Studio make the syntax irrelevant and the architecture

I disagree with pretty much every assertion in this article's rant. Advanced visual editors like Visual Studio make the syntax irrelevant and the architecture easy to focus on. Now I can keep my brain focused on separation of concerns with relative ease. Re factoring is also ALMOST irrelevant if you are adhering to a good MVC or MVVM pattern. Granted, if you are a genuine hacker and not interested in building mainstream web apps, then what the author is saying may be true. I wouldn't know.

dragonwriter 13y ago
> Advanced visual editors like Visual Studio make the syntax irrelevant and the architecture easy to focus on I disagree. If they made the syntax irrelevant, there wouldn't be a need for the source code window at all.
philwelch 13y ago
> Re factoring is also ALMOST irrelevant if you are adhering to a good MVC or MVVM pattern. There are levels of complexity where an MVC architecture isn't enough to make refactoring "almost" irrelevant, and you run into them pretty quickly.