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I totally agree, but I tell people who use one at work to not use one at home. It's about being able to adapt to changing market conditions too. If you become
by zedshaw 12y ago
I totally agree, but I tell people who use one at work to not use one at home. It's about being able to adapt to changing market conditions too. If you become dependent on IDEs then when new languages come out you have to wait for someone to make an IDE for that language. If you can also code without one, then you don't have to wait.
- jballanc 12y agoI'd argue the same goes for languages, not just tools. At home I like to spend most of my time with Lua, Scheme, and C, and only sometimes Ruby or Python. The less the language does for you, the more you can focus on the concepts and forms.