On 5/12/15, 12:10 PM, "Michael Schmalle" <teotigraphix...@gmail.com> wrote:
>"True command-line junkies don’t use IDE’s and can just work from >the git repos with some environment variables." > >This is funny. Although I consider myself a pretty good programmer, I hate >the command line. Why? I have to type more, seriously that is it, having >to >type more after writing code sucks. Anything that can make my life easier >there is welcome, IDE, yes please. Don’t confuse being a good programmer with whether you use an IDE or not. FWIW, at least one study showed that the typing is faster than point-and-click. IIRC, most of it was just the time required to move your hand and the eye-hand coordination feedback loop. But you have to know what to type (such as menu shortcuts, etc) and that required familiarity with the task environment. And, of course, a picture is worth a thousand words so if visualization is important to the task, then an IDE is going to be better. For me, whenever I feel like I’m spending too much time mousing the same sequence over and over, I generally try to learn the shortcuts if available. Full disclosure: I have two IDEs open on my computer right now. However, I am only using FB for editing AS/MXML code and not using code intelligence at all since I know the APIs really well. But for Falcon code which is written in Java, I definitely rely on code intelligence and the Eclipse IDE. For debugging, I am much faster debugging AS code in FDB than in FB mainly because of how hard it is to operate the GUI to examine one property out of the 100’s and or test the value of expressions. -Alex
