the quality of your code and the comfort of you as a dev are more important than the bullshit pedigree of the editor you use
@typhlosion That is a very reasonable exception
Programming/teaching horror
I had students write code in Word, never manage to compile it, and send me the .doc file; of course, it didn't contain syntactically-valid C.
When asked about it, they explained that the compiler was obviously broken, since it gave lots of errors when fed the doc file...
Programming/teaching horror
@kellerfuchs @Triplefox they are destined for a long and healthy career in middle management
@typhlosion @Triplefox
It's not text that was contained in your toot, it was raw pain.
@typhlosion +++++++++++++++
@typhlosion i feel like IDEs are just displacing the onus of having well designed languages onto something/someone else for the most part (full disclosure: i use sublimetext)
@bleak IDEs are fine and are actually really great tools. sublimetext is fine. atom is fine. notepad? gedit? also fine. cat > file? you do you
except if you write code in Word