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0 pointspdimitar1y ago0 comments

Typing is, or at least it should be, the least of your time spent during the day doing programming. I don't find optimizing the 5-10% of my workday spent typing impressive, or even worth mentioning.

Granted there are languages where typing takes much more time, like Java and C# but... eh. They are quite overdue for finding better syntax anyway! :)

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NoGravitas1y ago

The languages where typing takes more time also tend to have IDE support to mitigate that --- in a deterministic way, unlike CoPilot.

pdimitarOP1y ago

True.

knowaveragejoe1y ago

I didn't mean typing in the sense of autocomplete, I meant typing in the sense of stubbing out an entire class or series of test cases. It gives me scaffolding to work with which I can take and run with.

pdimitarOP1y ago

Yes that's fair. If it helps reduce writing boilerplate then I'm all for it.

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0 pointspdimitar1y ago0 comments

Typing is, or at least it should be, the least of your time spent during the day doing programming. I don't find optimizing the 5-10% of my workday spent typing impressive, or even worth mentioning.

Granted there are languages where typing takes much more time, like Java and C# but... eh. They are quite overdue for finding better syntax anyway! :)

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NoGravitas1y ago

The languages where typing takes more time also tend to have IDE support to mitigate that --- in a deterministic way, unlike CoPilot.

pdimitarOP1y ago

True.

knowaveragejoe1y ago

pdimitarOP1y ago

Yes that's fair. If it helps reduce writing boilerplate then I'm all for it.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse