News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by ewjordan on Sunday October 03, 2010 @03:14PM (#1753375)
Let's talk again when you're dealing with a codebase with >1000 classes, 5 different programmers of varying ability that you don't have direct control over, a build process that takes 5 minutes to complete as it works its way through a dozen different complex tasks with dependencies on just as many external tools and servers, and you need to do one of these simple "rename" factorings right now because a colleague made a spelling error in a widely used internal method that's about to be promoted to a part of a public API. I guarantee you'll start to question whether change/compile/fix is the right approach to these things...
Re:Ask HN: I'm done with the IDE. What's a good alternative? by points on Sunday October 03, 2010 @03:23PM (#1753397)
In that case I'd just write a simple shell script :/

But thank god I don't work on large systems like that.