> But general code search, linter/test integration, and embedded features like autocomplete, pop-up signatures or docs, etc., are disastrously bad things hands down for regular development.
I honestly can’t tell if this is a spoof “ how hackernews can I make it?” comment or not. What, precisely, is bad about those things? Would there be some virtue in my knowing every method signature in the enormous code base I work on from memory?
I honestly can’t tell if this is a spoof “ how hackernews can I make it?” comment or not. What, precisely, is bad about those things? Would there be some virtue in my knowing every method signature in the enormous code base I work on from memory?