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0 pointsTameAntelope3y ago0 comments

I come from an era where the more fully featured your IDE, the less likely you were to truly understand what was going on under the hood.

I strongly recommend everyone spend their first ~5 years coding in vim or some other basic text editor (preferably through the terminal), before leaning on an IDE to solve their problems for them.

That said, VSCode is now my go-to IDE, and I haven't opened WebStorm in probably ~6 months. It's lighter weight than the IDEA suite of IDEs, and gives me ~80% of the functionality, so it's been a pretty good tradeoff.

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kllrnohj3y ago

There are languages, like C#, Java, and Kotlin, where the language design basically assumes an IDE is being used. It's just not practical or useful to deal with imports and their structure. Sure you can look them up on javadocs and copy/paste the import path. But at that point why not just use an ide? Why learn a skill you'll basically never use or need?

TameAntelopeOP3y ago

I wrote Java for multiple years in vim with no extensions installed.

hit8run3y ago

I don’t think that is smart

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bbkane3y ago

Honestly, I don't think VSCode hides much of what's going on from you. Generally I use it to edit code and then run "go run ." on the side.

9999000009993y ago

Would you even do that with C# ?

I actually dislike computer science classes which won't let me just use an IDE.

No one can memorize the .net 7 API

heartbreak3y ago

VS Code and Vim have intelligent autocomplete for C#, although Vim requires significantly more configuration to get it working.

quickthrower23y ago

.NET Core and beyond yes. For older .NET you really need classic VS or you will probably have a bad time.

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