Re:Show HN: CodeMatch: IDE autocomplete on overdrive
by encoderer on Monday August 22, 2011 @04:32PM
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"But what if the code looks beautiful and right, but hides a rare bug that the designer doesn't know about?"
All I'm saying is, in my experience, developing systems and apps for 10 years, the "rare bug" you talk about is just not a big enough problem to warrant that kind of caution.
Because the kind of code that you put in a snippet and reuse is the kind of "glue" or boilerplate code that is a solved problem.
I totally agree, it's over-sold. But any time you're using something you don't fully understand, you run risks. Being able to be informed of updates / problems would change the entire practice of re-using snippets, and integration into an IDE is the perfect way to do so. You, as a contributor, could even learn of problems / improvements that others have found.