Comment by sly010
1 year ago
> The goal of programming is not to write code (however much I enjoy that part), it is to solve problems.
Right, which is exactly why autocomplete is not a huge help.
1 year ago
> The goal of programming is not to write code (however much I enjoy that part), it is to solve problems.
Right, which is exactly why autocomplete is not a huge help.
That makes no sense whatsoever. Autocomplete helps you speed up the writing of the code so you can focus on solving the problems more often.
I switch back and forth between using autocomplete/LSP in an IDE and plain-jane vim. Autocomplete isn't the end-all-be-all of productivity you're making it out to be.
I've only found it truly useful in a codebase, language, or library I'm unfamiliar with or haven't touched in a long time.
It doesn't do much for me most of the time as I'm usually thinking or walking around the code, but the codebases I'm in usually are extremely easy to jump around in with fzf.
Properly naming functions/classes/modules goes a long way.
Writing the code doesn't generally take a great deal of time once I know what code needs to be written, so there's little value to be gained in optimizing that part of the process. I can think while I type, after all.