What I would do differently if I was learning to program again

Re:What I would do differently if I was learning to program ... by emodendroket on Monday July 09, 2018 @01:17PM (#17491795)

The on-the-fly error and smell checking Emacs does is better than nothing but it's on a different level than a good IDE.

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Re:What I would do differently if I was learning to program ... by marcosdumay on Monday July 09, 2018 @06:34PM (#17493955)

Hum...

It marks the failures found by the CLI compilers and linters, exactly like any "good IDE" out there. What IDE are you referring to?

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Re:What I would do differently if I was learning to program ... by emodendroket on Monday July 09, 2018 @07:07PM (#17494143)

I'm mostly an IntelliJ (and variants: RubyMine, Webstorm, Rider, PhpStorm, etc.) user, although I also use Visual Studio. In my experience, Emacs plugins for many languages often have a feel of working more on looking for matching words in the code rather than "understanding" what the code is doing, let alone suggesting good refactors.

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Re:What I would do differently if I was learning to program ... by marcosdumay on Monday July 09, 2018 @09:24PM (#17494751)

IntelliJ's linters are indeed unusually rich on the deepness and complexity of their rules. But not on the universality, the reason that I consider them unusable, since I just don't like to turn rules off.

Anyway, that's a feature of their linters. It just happens to be packaged with their IDE, but it's a completely different tool.

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Re:What I would do differently if I was learning to program ... by emodendroket on Monday July 09, 2018 @10:53PM (#17495079)

In practice the great linters and refactoring tools are kind of a package and it's nice to have them integrated (there's the "I") into your development environment. I find the IntelliJ emulation of Emacs key bindings good enough for me.

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