Benefits of Not Using an IDE

Re:Benefits of Not Using an IDE by oldsecondhand on Saturday August 21, 2021 @12:36PM (#28258325)

But you don't use git to write your code. Code autocompletion and cross referencing are pretty big productivity boosters that won't prevent you from learning command line git. Also I bet you don't use the command line for diffing files.

Also the problems is that most IDEs half ass their git client. When I was using Sourcetree, I rarely ever felt the need to go to the command line.

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Re:Benefits of Not Using an IDE by dmurray on Saturday August 21, 2021 @02:43PM (#28259402)

> Also I bet you don't use the command line for diffing files.

Wait, isn't this normal? I run "diff" and "git diff" all the time (I think I have those both set up to invoke colordiff, but it's still a command line program). Also vim -d.

Occasionally I browse diffs on Github or Bitbucket instead. I don't find it an improvement. I do favour editors over IDEs, but I don't think I'm an extremist on this one.

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Re:Benefits of Not Using an IDE by hactually on Saturday August 21, 2021 @07:11PM (#28261403)

Another git diff/diff user here. Being able to pipe my code changes is a huge win.

Maybe I'm old - my whole os/shell is my ide

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Re:Benefits of Not Using an IDE by orwin on Sunday August 22, 2021 @08:27AM (#28264916)

For my sibling using `git diff`, can i introduce you to tig[0]? I think it is inferior to magit, but you can install and test it with `apt install tig` and then `tig` in a git directory.

[0] http://jonas.github.io/tig/

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