alt Hacker NewsLearning how to use a proper IDE is a change in workflow.
I never made that switch. The muscle memory of 2 decades of using a software is under appreciated.
For me, it is about preference for what to optimize for.
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ulbu • today at 11:05 AM
IDEs made the mistake of locking the user into desktop-traditional keybinding paradigm instead of using a more flexible one which would allow for implementation of both vim and desktop paradigms. (don’t respond with “well they have vim mode plugins”. no they don’t. they’re hacky and unreliable)
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agumonkey • today at 12:25 PM
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I have tried making that switch many times and lasted for a few months and then one day I find I've been back at the CLI for a week without noticing.
I love CLI tools that effectively give me the things an IDE would offer such as astgrep for refactoring for example. zoekt with a browser does pretty good indexed searches. fzf can be used to build up almost any useful way of selecting things that you can imagine. So the CLI becomes my IDE.