As someone who has been doing this either professionally (since 1996) or as a hobbyist programming in assembly and a little Basic (1986-1992), I’m always amazed at the feigned Slashdot style “I haven’t owned a Tv in 40 years why do people still watch them”.
Are you really saying that you don’t see any utility in modern IDEs? Even back in 1999 I thought Visual Studio was a breath of fresh air let alone R# with all of the built in refactors in 2008.
But going further back, to the Turbo days in college and my first few years working, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, watches etc were a godsend
What I'm saying is that they can't do anything I can't do in a terminal. Another way of putting it is why would I need an IDE other than UNIX (GNU) itself?
> But going further back, to the Turbo days in college and my first few years working, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, watches etc were a godsend
Because working in an IDE is an order of magnitude easier than with UNIX tools, especially for novices, significantly increasing productivity. The author also covers this a bit.
Are you really saying that you don’t see any utility in modern IDEs? Even back in 1999 I thought Visual Studio was a breath of fresh air let alone R# with all of the built in refactors in 2008.
But going further back, to the Turbo days in college and my first few years working, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, watches etc were a godsend