On 23 November 2010 17:38, Josh Berry <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/11/23 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: > > I just don't understand why so many people enjoy doing by hand things > that > > can be 100% automated. > > No matter how productive you are writing Java with a text editor, you > will > > become *more* productive with an IDE. > > Having seen some amazing things done with just vim, I don't know as > that I can believe this. I do feel that I am much better at exploring > an API with an IDE than I am by hand, but actual coding work is > something I feel rather conflicted about. Seems moving more of the > knowledge into my head and mental model of what I'm doing helps more > than having an IDE that tries to do that for me. (This is akin to > having a word processor that will "auto correct" for me. That would > be good if I wasn't a touch typist, but typically all it does is cause > confusion when I am not backspacing over what I know I typed.) > > Of course, at the risk of this being a language battle thread, I don't > understand why so many people are fine having something automated that > could be flat out removed. :) It is amusing how often I hear "the > IDE does that for me" as a defense for any of the incredibly verbose > parts of a language. > >
Well, quite... If you use refactoring to deal with massive great heaps of duplication, then is the problem with file-level editors *really* the absence of refactoring support? I'm just playing devil's advocate of course, I actually rather like IDEs myself. -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
