Do modern IDEs make us dumber?

Re:Do modern IDEs make us dumber? by jwilliams on Friday December 05, 2008 @08:45PM (#387749)

> When you're working with a large number of source files, the ability to have auto-complete, parameter guessing, getter/setter creation, auto-builders, and real-time code syntax/quality/checkstyle/pmd/findbugs/etc... validation means you can write working code more quickly.

I think his point is broader than that - he's arguing that IDEs encourage/are symptomatic of/cause bloat of the APIs and encourage bloat in other areas (e.g. generated code).

However, I think this article misses a trick by not mentioning functional programming.

FP reduces the surface area of many APIs considerably. It also "fixes" all the code generation issues with a much more elegant solution (i.e. macros).

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Re:Do modern IDEs make us dumber? by newsycaccount on Saturday December 06, 2008 @11:49AM (#388180)

Funny, most programers who make heavy use of macros heavily rely on IDE-like features such as macro-expansion.

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