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Yeah! People should never try to build new things that fit their needs/philosophy. I'll stick with Eclipse 1.0 thankyouverymuch. Or not. Discouraging people

by habosa 13y ago

Yeah! People should never try to build new things that fit their needs/philosophy. I'll stick with Eclipse 1.0 thankyouverymuch. Or not. Discouraging people who build or discuss interesting things without actually offering a better solution is petty and a waste of everyone's time. if someone thinks that building a new IDE where you type upside-down that only supports Arc, good for them. One of those people might come up with Visual Studio or intelliJ, and then save tons of people countless hours.

aaron695 13y ago
> Yeah! People should never try to build new things that fit their needs/philosophy. Correct. Certainly in the software world. Software for young white males is done to death. And although this article is pure humour it makes an important point. As if the IDE is going to be fixable on a whim. It's used and thought about by every person who writes software most days, as if there are any magic bullets left to implement. And if you get put off by a humours article which you don't get the points on, you're doomed to failure anyway. Go off and try something different. If people can't think of reasons why you shouldn't do it, then there's a chance it's a good idea that might have some lowing hanging fruit on it.
- chazu 13y ago
  To quote ESR, "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." For me that truism underlies the passion that gets all good hackers into designing and implementing software. It's the very linchpin of what makes a good software engineer. Someone who's driven to build something, even if its yet-another X. It's "the bug" that I expect to see in any half-decent job candidate for an entry-level position. Dismissing that seems, to me, tantamount to taking all the fun out of programming. That being said, I do find atom kind of silly.

by habosa 13y ago

aaron695 13y ago

> Yeah! People should never try to build new things that fit their needs/philosophy. Correct. Certainly in the software world. Software for young white males is done to death. And although this article is pure humour it makes an important point. As if the IDE is going to be fixable on a whim. It's used and thought about by every person who writes software most days, as if there are any magic bullets left to implement. And if you get put off by a humours article which you don't get the points on, you're doomed to failure anyway. Go off and try something different. If people can't think of reasons why you shouldn't do it, then there's a chance it's a good idea that might have some lowing hanging fruit on it.

chazu 13y ago
To quote ESR, "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." For me that truism underlies the passion that gets all good hackers into designing and implementing software. It's the very linchpin of what makes a good software engineer. Someone who's driven to build something, even if its yet-another X. It's "the bug" that I expect to see in any half-decent job candidate for an entry-level position. Dismissing that seems, to me, tantamount to taking all the fun out of programming. That being said, I do find atom kind of silly.