Re:Do modern IDEs make us dumber?
by ajross on Saturday December 06, 2008 @02:13AM
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One might submit that if you were to learn a single editor and use it for all your tasks, you might not only be more productive at each of them but your answer to an editor for Javascript might be something other than "ggrrrrr".
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I actually use Notepad2 for Javascript. It is a great, all around, bare bones, dead simple editor. I say ggrrrrr because I want my IDE features!
I'm actually quite proficient at Vim. I used it day in and day out at Google for 3 months. It just drove me nuts. Vim (and presumably Emacs) are fantastic general-purpose text editors. Too bad I only spent a tiny portion of my time editing general text. I spend the vast majority of my time editing CODE.