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Honestly, I've seen people who swore by their IDEs and paired with them... usually what was going on is they were writing code they literally did not understand
by pnathan 12y ago
Honestly, I've seen people who swore by their IDEs and paired with them... usually what was going on is they were writing code they literally did not understand, and used the IDE as a lever to help them get by without understanding. IDEs simply allowed them to write very bad systems without any conceptual integrity, and they did.
Which wasn't my original point really.
- michaelochurch 12y agoPersonally, I'm a believer in the concept of a read-only IDE. Sometimes code visualization becomes easier with a GUI. I'll grant that. Likewise, IDEs can make debugging easier. Writing of code with an IDE has the problems you discussed.