Programmer Humor

I feel like this has more to do with what field you work in and what language/paradigm you use. Especially if you're working within some bullshit walled garden, you may not have a choice. I'm a terminal jockey myself, but I mostly program in C, so my code is procedural and to the point. Maybe I might want some fancy smart refactoring feature if I worked in a language where half the code is boilerplate or glue.

If I have the choice though, I don't see any advantage to an IDE. It's like the combination of many tools rolled into a single, bloated UI with about 60% of their original functionality. And I guess it lets you build "projects" and choose which files will be built. That part never made sense to me. I don't need a program for that! Just delete it dog. It's in the repo!

IDE:

• Text editor
• Source control
• Debugger
• Compiler
• Terminal
• File explorer

I'm my opinion, these programs are just better as separate programs.

(Rant) One thing that grinds my gears... Some IDEs will leave you with the dumbest possible directory structure imaginable. Like actively hostile toward us terminal jockeys. Remember, we are repeatedly typing these things out like cavemen. For example, c/c++ developers who put their headers in a separate, but identical directory structure. Oh and let's do full taxonomy and go 10 directories deep. And what the hell, capitalize random letters and throw in some with spaces into the directory names for good measure. These things don't have to matter to IDE people, but it is something to be mindful of.

Emac?

just run everything thru Doom Emacs. Terminal? emacs, git? emacs, ide? emacs, WM? emacs.

Once again it seems like I don't even have an IQ ¯\(ツ)/¯

I'm on the far left.

These meme spreads misinformation under the disguise of wisdom.

Those on the right side are too blind in their arrogance and probably seldom face challenging tasks in large codebases.

You don't even need a text editor, you can write it on paper.

But both are terrible options if you want to actually get stuff done, now that we have better tools.

Just use a magnetized needle;... the way it was always inteneded to.

Had some juniors who was git diffing in the terminal PRs of 20 more files with 200 changed lines. A newly appointed senior told them that was the best approach. Needless to say there had always to be some follow up push after they opened the PR on web. U dont need ai, but you need a fucking GUI.

need ai integration to code

Nah that dude is on the left, and he makes 250k per year

You can take away my auto complete, performance monitoring and all that jazz but you can't tell me a debugging system isn't absolutely essential if you actually want to finish a project in a reasonable amount of time

I disagree that a person with low IQ would think its possible to code using a simple text editor. If anything he needs IDE more than any one else.

Why do you need a text editor? Just use radiation to bit flip the memory into the configuration you need.

You also need a compiler or interpreter because wtf man you gotta run some stuff during development

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.