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This is some of the worst bullshit I've read in quite some time. USE AN IDE. It's there to take care of the boilerplate crap for you. It's there to correct you
by kstenerud 12y ago
This is some of the worst bullshit I've read in quite some time.
USE AN IDE. It's there to take care of the boilerplate crap for you. It's there to correct your typos. It's there to give you instant lookup of API calls. It's there to flag your syntax errors so you don't have to do the annoying "code, compile, placate the compiler, repeat" cycle. Using an IDE will NOT make you stupid. People who advocate this view are the same kind of people who insist on a manual transmission as an indicator of a good driver. IT'S NOT.
- aroberge 12y agoReal bullshit is spewed when someone make comments about something they don't know anything about. This advice given about not using IDEs is on a site teaching programming in C to complete beginners. If you had spend just a few minutes on the site, you would have realized that there is no boilerplate crap to learn in the lessons he teaches and that it makes a lot of sense at that level to forego using an IDE and focusing on learning the language using a simple editor, rather than spending a lot of time learning to use a specialized tool.
- kstenerud 12y agoOr just use an IDE so you can focus on the language rather than his idea of the proper (command line) tooling. This would be ESPECIALLY helpful for complete beginners. I've taught many people C, and it's always gone a LOT smoother with an IDE.