Re:Why is it so hard to see code from 5 minutes ago?
by woutr_be on Saturday February 20, 2021 @05:33AM
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> I actually think this is part of the problem- there is excellent tooling for making programming much, much easier, but many programmers are unaware of how to use them.
Isn’t that just called “experience”? It’s understandable that junior engineers don’t know these tools exists, but most will learn them after a few years.
If you’re curious and interested enough, you’ll wonder if there are better ways to do things. Or talk to more experienced people and ask them how they do things.
I don’t think this is a “problem”, it’s just part of the process of becoming an experienced engineer.
When I was an undergrad, I wrote code in a text editor without syntax highlighting, I debugged using log statements, and I manually tested every change by running my program manually with different inputs.
Of course those are all fixed by pretty basic things, but you would be surprised how many programmers literally don’t know how to use the tools they have, or are unaware of them. And some tools are downright hard to grok- git is definitely one of those.