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It's interesting that people keep using the word "better" when it comes to new editors/languages/frameworks/etc, yet as an industry we have very little evidence
by bowlofpetunias 13y ago
It's interesting that people keep using the word "better" when it comes to new editors/languages/frameworks/etc, yet as an industry we have very little evidence to proof it.
I've been doing this programming thing since the 80's, and the only thing I've seen that has really made software development better have been better practices.
Maybe we should first review our definition of "better" before we label something with it. Too often it's used as a synonym for "ooh, shiny!".
Having said that, Atom looks nice and shiny.
- bruceboughton 13y agoNonsense, you didn't even have CVS in the 80's.
- groovy2shoes 13y agoMaybe not, but I'd take pass-the-floppy over AccuRev or Perforce any day. Yeah, git and its kin are really nice, but the expensive version control systems I've been required to use in enterprise settings are awful. So awful that many people actually just email source files back and forth so they don't have to deal with it. So, version control has made things better in some areas. But enterprise version control feels more like a step back to me. AccuRev has literally stolen entire mornings from me because what should have been a simple two-minute check-in took almost 3 hours to complete and was interactive! Yay!
- bruceboughton 13y agoThat's a shame. All the enterprise places I've worked so far have used Subversion (whether officially or not).
- hrabago 13y agoHence the name.