New developers, a piece of advice. Learn a text editor

https://letterstoanewdeveloper.com/2018/09/21/learn-a-text-editor/

by whack • 7 years ago

2 2 7 years ago

It is nice to have tools that don't require 30 seconds to boot up, just so you can view some xml (Looking at you visual studio). But the recommendation of vi or emacs...just why? I scratch my head when people recommend 30 year old tech.

Those who use vi and emacs to their full potential are that generation of developers who grew up with those tools. Nowadays, why wouldn't you use something like VSCode as your main text editor? Atom? Or even n++? Unless you are confined by your job to an sshterm or something. If you want to LEARN a text editor you might as well pick one of the modern ones with all the nice modern QOL updates. The tech-flex of developing in a terminal is so dumb.

And VI? Why not VIM? VI is like recommending ANSI C over C18.

mooreds• 7 years ago

Author here.

Good points. One of the reasons I gave to learn emacs or vim is that they're available everywhere. To me, that has a lot of value.

New developers, a piece of advice. Learn a text editor

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