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0 pointshnlmorg1y ago0 comments

Is it though? It reads to me more like elitism to me.

A better summary is: “people have different workflows because different people like to approach problems differently.”

That’s all it is.

I find LSPs largely get in my way. I don’t have them disabled because 1% of the time I do find them useful. But for the other 99% of the time they’re adding no value at all. So I could very easily write code without an LSP (and often do write code in vi with zero additional plugins installed).

What I do really value is code formatters. I like not having to write tidy code and then having code formatters clean it up when I hit save. That’s the kind of enhancement I value. (It also gives me piece of mind that a file has saved successfully when you see alignment pop into place).

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modernerd1y ago· 1 in thread

> people have different workflows because different people like to approach problems differently.

But the way you like to approach problems is heavily influenced by your history of solving them, what tools were available at the time, what you chose to adopt, and how often you revise that toolset.

It's not elitist to say that people tend to use what they've always used, which was my point: "how do people cope without LSP/LLMs?" tends to be "the way they've always coped" — efficiently or otherwise.

And it tends to track with when you began programming or using specific tools. A vim user who adopted vim in the '90s is more likely to have a light config than those who adopted it more recently, where I see heavy plugin and plugin manager use, LSP integration, pre-configured distros, and Lua-based configs.

hnlmorgOP1y ago

I’ve spent lots of time working in IDEs and lots of time working without them.

Generally I find IDEs more useful when I’m working with an unfamiliar code base or an unfamiliar language.

And that’s probably why there appears to be an age gap. It might be more down to comfort with the code rather than comfort with the tooling.

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