On 2011-12-02 22:40, Somedude wrote:
Yes, the IDE takes care of a lot of boilerplate code. It's ugly, but it's hardly a productivity issue. One other thing that's cool is refactoring is no longer an issue, like it is in C or C++. With powerful IDEs, you can refactor without fearing too much regression, and that's a very important advantage, especially in a heavily OO language.
That's no longer the case if you take a look at newer C/C++ IDE's like the latest versions of XCode that uses Clang to handle basically all language related features of the IDE, autocompletion, syntax highlighting, refactoring and similar.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
