Re:Hacker culture and the fear of wysiwyg
by mantrax5 on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @04:37PM
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For as long as I remember IDEs have had said drag-and-drop interfaces, usually centered around the coding of GUIs, and no one has said that just because an IDE has a visual form editor it's not programming.
You're the one making up the distinction and arguing against it.
The primary reason that not everything has turned into a drag-and-drop interface is that it's highly inefficient. It remains a fact that compared to manually hunting for class Socket in tab bars and scrollable lists, just so I can drag it and drop it somewhere, it's far easier to just use your keyboard and type "new Socket" in your code, especially with autocompletion at your service.
You're the one making up the distinction and arguing against it.
The primary reason that not everything has turned into a drag-and-drop interface is that it's highly inefficient. It remains a fact that compared to manually hunting for class Socket in tab bars and scrollable lists, just so I can drag it and drop it somewhere, it's far easier to just use your keyboard and type "new Socket" in your code, especially with autocompletion at your service.