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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I hate how IDEs with error checking check the code at every character. Like my dude, we got this shit right with text editors having spell check back in 1997. Wait just a moment before checking please. All the time when I'm typing the editor freaks the fuck out, this is wrong, this is wrong, here is an error, wtf is this supposed to mean? And then when I type the ) or whatever, all is well. Just give me a freaking second to work and think.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say it's probably happening because the syntax parser runs every character to be able to provide auto complete, and error tracking is a part of that system. I wonder if there's a plugin that introduces some smart delay between when the error is detected and when it's displayed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

You can thank search engines on mobile for that, pure idiocy

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

vim evangelists incoming although they are on panel 3

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

Bold of you to assume I even use auto complete!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

"clicks"? Where we're going we don't need... "clicks"!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well, my autocompletes works fine but I thinks it's a lot thanks to vscode, which seems to have pushed LSP.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Are you even a real programmer if you haven't fixed a prod critical but in notepad++ because your ide won't open for whatever reason?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I've done critical fixes (usually config) direct on a prod server with vim over ssh before now. Not the best way to do it but sometimes waiting for CI will just take too long...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Old school "CI/CD" was an FTP server where you dropped DLLs into I remember

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I once fixed an important bug by force-pushing on the master branch (I was an admin too and could do it). I had 5 minutes to fix it, and no one was aware of it. I didn't ask for permission but I was sweating a lot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I've lost track of the number of Report Builder files I've had to update via Notepad++ - the intended editor has so many weird kinks and corner cases it's often easier to just edit the file directly!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Maybe old IDEs. Like Eclipse 10-20 years ago.

Modern IDEs don’t really have these issues as frequently.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Visual Studio has these issues daily.

Ten years ago VS was awesome. In the last 2 years, all they added is AI crap and every other feature got more buggy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Your experience is far from universal. Working with actual code files, visual studio works very good.

Mix in XAML blazor, however...

(Note that both file formats are abstractions from which C# classes are.generated...)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I have a faint memory of working with Eclipse but shelved it due to making Java even slower than my dog walking towards his shower. Is it still alive and viable?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Oh I don't know. 1,3,5 and 6 resonate strongly with me for Visual Studio 2022. The only reason 4 doesn't is because instead of looking for a setting I DDG "how do I do X in VS2022"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you tried modern Eclipse on Wayland? Save often!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have not. Last time I used Eclipse (maybe 10 years ago) I got so frustrated it prompted me to learn Vim.

I’m currently mostly using IntelliJ these days.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

The only issue I've ever had with Eclipse is updating it. It's only gotten better in the past 2 years or so. The rest of the time upgrading was a complete pain in the ass. Just about every time I ended up giving up and reinstalling from scratch.

Well, the one other thing that annoys me is not having decent themeing. I use a third party extension and while it does help, there are parts of the IDE that you still can't customize so if you want a dark mode you have to deal with parta that aren't ideal.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just use Vim!

(This user was taken out back and shot)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I do all my edits using sed inserts, like a real dev.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just use ed like the gods intended

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I use butterflies

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

What about Edd and Eddy?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Pfff, all these amateurs here using Vim. Y'all should use Emacs. You still have all of these problems, but you get to act all superior about it. /s (except for the superiority complex; that's real)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

I use Emacs honestly just because it’s more FUN for me. It’s such an open book internally that when things break, I find I can usually figure it out. There aren’t that many environments that really feel that way. I get that it’s not everybody’s cup of tea, but man am I glad to have it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The fediverse is just so geeky. I don't know what this means. The wikipedia article kinda makes sense, but there's a lot of terminology in there. It seems like an advanced editor with many features - like a bat-mobile for programmers, but it keeps breaking down?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Basically yeah, it's a text editor with a lot of features geared towards making programing easier, e.g. an equivalent of a spell checker but for code. Like any software, some IDEs/features can be either poorly designed or unstable, which can be aggravating when you spend your day working with it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Are IDEs the microsoft word of programming?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Yes and no.

You can avoid all these problems by just coding in Word ofc, but then again all these problems will still happen

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Except for buried settings, only Visual Studio is like this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No, they are not a flat rectagle creature with arms and legs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

IDE - The precursor to SATA? I don't get it...

Edit: Learn something new every day! Thank you!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

From my limited knowledge (just started learning python) an IDE (integrated developing environment) is a program where you can do multiple things in one place while writing a program like coding, debugging or even running your application

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I never knew it used to be a storage standard. Turns out it was renamed to PATA at some point.

As someone else said, IDE refers to development software like Visual Studio, Eclipse, and others. Nowadays a lot of text editors (VS Code/ium, Sublime Text, and many others) come with enough features to pass as an IDE too, but some people still somehow differentiate between them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Can someone tell me if I'm just stupid and doing something wrong ?

Neovim with Python lsp works 90000% better than any Python extension on vscode for me. I don't hate vscode and I occasionally use it but it kind of sucks for python ? Does anyone have any kind of info that could help, what extensions are you using ?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

vscode isn't an ide either. one of the big problems i've seen with its python lsp server is that it doesn't work if the project structure is "wrong", which means that usability is limited.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know you joke but topheavy IDEs are discouraging new coders at an alarming rate

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

More than the complete collapse of the programming profession is discouraging new coders?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Crys in Vivado

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Intellij is sometimes like that, e.g. I hate not being able to change my gradle cache folder globally, instead of per project

Sometimes it stops showing the ui and just runs in the background

Sometimes it fails to git pull and the rollback menu is broken

Sometimes the hot reload bugs out and it recompiles 1000+ classes

But i still love it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Unreal Engine certainly is.

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