personally though, all that is noise to me and is difficult to maintain focus when it’s got all these popups and autofills.
I’m currently maintaining a codebase that’s got something like 900 methods/functions across multiple classes, modules, and other objects. It follows a pattern and is pretty easy to maintain though.
another project I’m inheriting is doesn’t have any logical flow or pattern and is a shitstorm of JS Christmas trees. I’ll likely need to used something that will trace through the callbacks just to see what the fuck is going on.
my point though, is if you depend on the tools that make it easy to write sloppy code, you will write sloppy code because the key feature of the tool allows you to do it without repercussions.
building something without effort rarely ends with a result you can be proud of. this is true for development and in life, IMO.
Maybe old IDEs. Like Eclipse 10-20 years ago.
Modern IDEs don’t really have these issues as frequently.
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Visual Studio has these issues daily.
Ten years ago VS was awesome. In the last 2 years, all they added is AI crap and every other feature got more buggy.
modern IDEs are dog shit. If I needed a glorified clippy telling me how to do my job I’d smash my brains out all over my keyboard.
Give me an editor with the following and I’ll be good for life.
nice to have:
if an editor can do all that I can make it do whatever I need.
I had similar opinion, but I’ve changed my mind. Now I can barely do any serious work without an IDE.
The main feature I’m after is code completion. Just getting a peek of which methods are available is something I can’t be without.
Code hints like ”this expression will always evaluate to false” is great to capture difficult to spot mistakes.
Code usage it’s is a must when doing refactors. It makes it easy to analyze how a method is used before I commit to a refactor.
Debugger and profiler is also nice to have.
I’d say that’s true for most devs.
personally though, all that is noise to me and is difficult to maintain focus when it’s got all these popups and autofills.
I’m currently maintaining a codebase that’s got something like 900 methods/functions across multiple classes, modules, and other objects. It follows a pattern and is pretty easy to maintain though.
another project I’m inheriting is doesn’t have any logical flow or pattern and is a shitstorm of JS Christmas trees. I’ll likely need to used something that will trace through the callbacks just to see what the fuck is going on.
my point though, is if you depend on the tools that make it easy to write sloppy code, you will write sloppy code because the key feature of the tool allows you to do it without repercussions.
building something without effort rarely ends with a result you can be proud of. this is true for development and in life, IMO.
“A shitstorm of JS Christmas trees” what poetry. Thank you.