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Re:How I boosted my Vim by lelele on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @06:20AM (#1690077)
> Having all this functionality available in a single integrated package...

s/available/trapped/

s/integrated/monolithic/

;-)

I think IDEs are useful, yet they always make me think what a bad example of code reuse they are. Code reuse? Are you kidding? Much better rewriting each plugin with each IDE ;-)

EDIT: By "monolithic" I don't mean that IDEs are not modular; I mean you can't use their modules elsewhere.

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Re:How I boosted my Vim by CGamesPlay on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @09:39AM (#1690472)
You're not suggesting Emacs or Vim is somehow better, are you?
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Re:How I boosted my Vim by lelele on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @11:44AM (#1690940)
Emacs and Vim are as good as the tools they can build upon, just like Eclipse is as good as available plugins. If you are going to develop in Erlang or Common Lisp, chances are Emacs is the best free IDE around (I don't know about Vim). It isn't so if you are going to develop in Java.

There is a lot of wheel reinventing in the Emacs and Vim's camps too, however. I just wanted to say that no matter how much code reuse is valued by developers, the tools they use the most are made with the less reusable pieces of software around.

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