Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal

Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by thomasahle on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:16AM (#24977541)

> it breaks up flow much much less than having to go to the documentation all the time to look up minor naming variations (is it "start" or "begin"?).

I read OP's position as: If you don't use aurocomplete you'll remember the naming variations better, and won't have to look them up all the time.

I still think aurocomplete might be faster for libraries you haven't used much before, but it doesn't sound at all unbelievable to me that the brain works as stated.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by kstenerud on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:55AM (#24977769)

I never used autocomplete until my fourth programming language. By that point, trying to write anything was an exercise in frustration as I constantly mixed keywords, namespaces and functions from the other languages.

Nowadays, I just leave autocomplete on for minimal flow break no matter what language I'm using at the moment. I don't want language-specific names and structures interrupting the flow of models and ideas from my head.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by snarfy on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:01AM (#24980197)

OP's position doesn't work very well the more you generalize. I had OP's philosophy when all I was doing was low level C code. It doesn't work very well when you are switching between yaml, python, c++, c#, typescript all with different libraries, coding standards, and naming conventions. By the time you no longer need the reference to remember, the reference changes.

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by svennek on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:53AM (#24980719)

For me, it works with 5+ languages I write (production) code in at least every month...

I don't know how it is for others.

Also, I really try to minimize complexity and not ending up in the javascript npm dependency spaghetti..

Good code is simple and obvious....

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Re:Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in y... by svennek on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:49AM (#24980692)

> I still think aurocomplete might be faster for libraries you haven't used much before, but it doesn't sound at all unbelievable to me that the brain works as stated.

Possibly, but I still need to read the librarys documentation carefully, where I plan my code anyways...

I have seen so many "auto coders" write 100+ lines of extra code because they missed reading the manual carefully and doing it correctly/efficiently...

If lines of code is your metric, that is great, if not, not...

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