Comment by tasuki

1 year ago

This works for small projects.

I've worked on projects where "hold the entire project in your head" might be somewhere between very hard and impossible. Work the right abstractions, it should be possible to hold the relevant parts in your brain. Still, when you're new to a large project, an ide goes a long way.

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userbinator  1 year ago

Would you consider the Linux kernel a small project?

That's an example of one where a large number of people working on it do not use IDEs.

  • yaro330  1 year ago

    Yes and they maintain their part of the code. The one they've been working on for 30 years.

    I've worked on forks for certain Android devices with very primitive text suggestions that notepadqq provides and the difference in productivity between that and vscode+clangd is staggering. What do you mean there's a macro for anything?