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0 pointsJugurtha1y ago0 comments

I don't use any of these out of ignorance first, laziness second, and incompetence third.

I didn't know about them, and I had spent a lot of time with the documentation and code of everything I touched (language, dependencies, etc). Looking things up reinforces this. The value of a feature such as autocomplete is marginal to me as a function of the effort I have to make to learn how to use it properly, the frustration of using it improperly, and the added steps to fix a blunder, so I just don't bother with it.

I also have a habit of having the documentation/book/code of a dependency open nearby and doing my look-ups there.

A lot of time is spent refining existing code, debugging, optimizing, refactoring, etc...

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gosub1001y ago· 1 in thread

I remember getting excited about zsh plugins that do this and that. More recently, fancy neovim plugins with demos on YouTube. Only to try them and they don't fucking work. Even cloned directly from their repo, there's always a missing dependency or font or program they need. Such a frustrating waste of time.

JugurthaOP1y ago

On the other hand, plugins imply a plugin architecture which means we can make our plugins that others could hate on. It is how life goes :-D

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