Re:LazyVim
by danjac on Monday July 17, 2023 @03:19AM
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I don't need an IDE for Python. Of course I can use a plain text editor if I want. Hell, nano even.
But right now, today, at work, I have a large legacy Django project to maintain, and it's kind of nice having little things like auto code formatting and linting to help me as I go and prevent me from making dumb mistakes and saving me a ton of time so I can focus on the problem at hand, not making the code look nice for review and I can hop between buffers to fix up the tests as I change the code.
I can certainly just run black/isort/ruff what have you manually, or with pre-commit, sure. But it's more productive to be able to see changes as I work.
Sure maybe I shouldn't be using Python, and maybe the original developers should have written it in Rust or whatever. Fine. But that's not what I'm being paid for.
But right now, today, at work, I have a large legacy Django project to maintain, and it's kind of nice having little things like auto code formatting and linting to help me as I go and prevent me from making dumb mistakes and saving me a ton of time so I can focus on the problem at hand, not making the code look nice for review and I can hop between buffers to fix up the tests as I change the code.
I can certainly just run black/isort/ruff what have you manually, or with pre-commit, sure. But it's more productive to be able to see changes as I work.
Sure maybe I shouldn't be using Python, and maybe the original developers should have written it in Rust or whatever. Fine. But that's not what I'm being paid for.