Switching from Vim to Intellij

Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by theonemind on Friday November 06, 2020 @02:27AM (#25005745)

I land in the "if you need an IDE, you already took a wrong turn" school of thought, basically Paul Graham's position in this old post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72710

granted, we don't always get to choose what language we use or what code bases we inherit.

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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by tsimionescu on Friday November 06, 2020 @02:42AM (#25005824)

That's a very strange attitude from someone who proselytizes Lisp, the language which pioneered IDEs about 30 years before other languages really had anything comparable.

Emacs, for Common Lisp, is still a much more advanced IDE than many languages have. It used to actually be a significant ingredient in the secret sauce that made Lisp so powerful - an advantage which it has thoroughly lost to IntelliJ/Visual Studio in my opinion.

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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by nemoniac on Friday November 06, 2020 @04:12AM (#25006233)

There's a school of thought that Slime in Emacs is such a different beast from what is generally considered to be an IDE that it doesn't belong in that category. My guess is that pg belongs to that school.

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Re:Switching from Vim to Intellij by pjmlp on Friday November 06, 2020 @04:22AM (#25006279)

I guess that is because Emacs is just a fraction of what Common Lisp environments are capable of, so what gets happy with what they can get (as free beer).

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