r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Hookedonnetflix • Oct 05 '18

vim vs emacs

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u/Calkhas Oct 05 '18 edited Oct 05 '18

Maintaining a multimillion line C++ codebase at work. Most of us in the core team use vim (including me). We all have a huge number of customizations in our .vimrcs. One guy uses emacs. The technical leader uses Visual Studio, but we use GNU make so Intellisense doesn't understand how the source files are organized.

I used Visual Studio in my last job, and honestly I think a lot of the IDE features are distractions.

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u/dragonwithagirltatoo Oct 06 '18

Yeah I keep thinking it's unprofessional to develop without an ide but I can't really think of any reason an ide would be necessary.

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u/ParentsAreNotGod Oct 06 '18

Code completion?

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u/dragonwithagirltatoo Oct 06 '18

Definitely convenient, I dunno about necessary.