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[-] mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de 37 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I have never seen or known a serious professional who preferred to work outside of a full featured IDE. All the most skilled and highest paid developers I've ever known were more adamant about using the IDE when compared to the less skilled developers who preferred to do things more via command line and text editors. Just my experience. I often suspect that this meme is shared and liked by people who aren't really professionals. Perhaps I just haven't encountered them yet.

Edit: It seems I indeed haven't encountered them! Although I do stand by my original point to the extent that it seems there are disciplines where IDEs are best and disciplines where they aren't. I enjoyed reading everyone's responses and thinking about areas of software that I don't usually think about. It's given me lots to look into. Thanks everyone who responded nicely! Also, I definitely did not mean to imply that specialists working without IDEs are amateurs or anything like that! Much respect to everyone out there making software.

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I learned to copy/paste website source code into notepad when I was a teenager, so vscodium is more than enough for my needs. I have been full time doing front end web dev, shipping in production, since 2014. I do svelte these days for internal tooling for a well known grocer currently. Having Linux experience as well ever since knoppix came out also helped

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 12 points 2 days ago

I would call vscode(ium) an IDE

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

When I think IDE I think Visual Studio or IntelliJ or XCode, these extremely heavy single use (originally at least, C# Java and ObjC respectively) behemoths. I think of vscode and atom before it as like a notepad++ ++

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 days ago

If it does more than allow you to edit text, then it’s an IDE. Semantic find and replace? IDE. “Go to definition”? IDE. Terminal in the same window? IDE. Git integration? IDE.

[-] Feyd@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

I use vscode (or codium when not at work) these days because it's a one stop shop for every language and every feature I could ever need is possible with a plugin. I have used visual studio, intelliJ and others in the past, and i fail to see the distinction from a usage perspective

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not saying you’re wrong, I’m just explaining what I think of when I think ide. I think of visual studio and its integration into windows dev, Xcode and its integration for macOS and apple dev, etc. I think of vscode as a super sublime text in its goals, or akin to vim/helix

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