> Your coworker sounds a bit... dumb. I would not say that. He is bright enough and has a deep technical knowledge. I think he just has some extreme opinions. To be honest though, if XCode is the only GUI IDE (besides ProjectCenter which I mentioned doesn't seem to work for me) I know that can be used for writing Objective-C then why not use a console editor? There are plenty advantages for Java but he is not a Java developer.
Maybe I am somewhat more bothered by his taking the time to be belittling towards those who do use GUI tools but I could also just be taking his remarks more seriously than intended. I mean I hold some opinions regarding the technical leadership still favouring emacs as the best tool for Java development which seems a bit out of touch with modern Java development practices. The difference is that I keep that opinion to myself and at the end of the day developers can use whatever they prefer. It does bother me a bit though if the tooling ends up spilling over into the code style. Examples are lots of unused imports (which most IDEs would highlight and make easy to remove) or funky indentation possibly due to copy and pasting or just because of trying to have everything fit within the character width of the terminal. I don't mean things like splitting lots of parameters onto multiple lines so that you don't have to scroll to see everything that a method is called with. I have seen that, used it and don't mind it (albeit still a bit of a throwback to console editing). It is things like having the if statement indented but not the contents of them or worse just that the indentation is all over the place. This may not be just a console editing issue though and I recognise that. > Hopefully, that's the place you are no longer working at. Hold on to that positive feeling. I expect it will be true one day. -- Cédric -- 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.
