Ask HN: What "developer holy war" have you flip-flopped on?

I used to be a vim snob and thought everyone should use what I use. I am now an Emacs lover and believe everyone should use what works for them. I grew up!

I was Emacs, got tired of some stupid things, Vim or other things now. Every other thing has some Vim mode thingy anyway... (Which I always used, regardless.)

Same stupid reasons make me pretty much drop Linux. I have it on Steam Deck, but that's all. MacBook, and Haiku for cool stuff. (Or for worky stuff, because I hate MacOS.)

Weak/Dynamic vs. Strong/Static typing.

I used to complain about the latter then I grew up.

Scala is not that bad. It’s still bad and overkill for most people and most projects, but not that bad for some

Font ligatures. Used to hate them with a burning passion. Now they're table stakes for trying different fonts.

>Vim vs. Emacs,

Nano has always won. Yes, vim is everywhere. I dont fathom why emacs exists.

>tabs vs. spaces

tabs make much more sense. python should fix this mistake. I guess my IDE fixes it for me?

>Mac vs. Linux,

100% linux; i tend to stick to the debian field, but certainly never actual debian. I really need to try alma; but dnf/yum/rpm and what the hell happened to centos? fedora is a mess like it always was. KDE? really we havent found one of the dozens of better DE?

>static vs. dynamic typing

Dynamic, ill never ever switch to a language that's static. I started in C++, never ever going back.

>JSON vs. YAML

JSON all the way.

I moved from tabs to spaces.