Re:I’m an Engineer, Not a Compiler
by kamaal on Thursday March 08, 2012 @06:09AM
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I do most of my other stuff Perl/Python and any other stuff apart from Java on Emacs. Some times on Sublime Text 2.
I am now planning to shift to ST2.
Even on an editor like ST2 which is awesome anyway. You get to see what an editor is designed for. Its supposed to make 'Text' manipulation easy. So that is what it is, after everything.
So Emacs with all its power is still a Text editor, albeit a very powerful one.
Every time I work on Text editor I focus on reading manuals and understanding stuff no matter which editor that is. But with Java,IntelliJ and Eclipse its different, I just throw in whatever little is there on my mind and just wait for the autocomplete to do the magic.
Some of my colleagues go a step far. They just can't write any Java code without an IDE and I see that's the case with nearly every Java programmer I've met so far! Even in interviews. Its sort of like if you are talking of Java development its taken for granted that its is happening on an IDE. You never know, a few days from now the Java language specification my include a IDE specification.
According to me tools and languages must enable you think more than you write. Unfortunately in case of Java(and now growingly Python) you just can't work without an IDE.
I am now planning to shift to ST2.
Even on an editor like ST2 which is awesome anyway. You get to see what an editor is designed for. Its supposed to make 'Text' manipulation easy. So that is what it is, after everything.
So Emacs with all its power is still a Text editor, albeit a very powerful one.
Every time I work on Text editor I focus on reading manuals and understanding stuff no matter which editor that is. But with Java,IntelliJ and Eclipse its different, I just throw in whatever little is there on my mind and just wait for the autocomplete to do the magic.
Some of my colleagues go a step far. They just can't write any Java code without an IDE and I see that's the case with nearly every Java programmer I've met so far! Even in interviews. Its sort of like if you are talking of Java development its taken for granted that its is happening on an IDE. You never know, a few days from now the Java language specification my include a IDE specification.
According to me tools and languages must enable you think more than you write. Unfortunately in case of Java(and now growingly Python) you just can't work without an IDE.