> Don’t confuse being a good programmer with whether you use an IDE or not.
That is not what I meant. I meant that I could be faster if I wasn't lazy and used the command line more. I think you took it opposite of what I said/meant. :) Mike On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:41 PM, Alex Harui <aha...@adobe.com> wrote: > > > 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 > >
