Programmer Humor

It's almost enough to make me feel nostalgic for the DOS version of Borland Turbo Pascal, which wasn't bright enough to do any of this stuff. (Well, it could freeze up, I suppose, but the only time I actually managed to do anything like that, it involved a null pointer dereference that would have triggered a segfault on any modern system.)

I mainly code Java with IntelliJ.

• it doesn't AFAIK have an integrated browser or if it does I have never encountered it ❌
• I have not seen it crash a lot and certainly not for the stated reason ❌
• if autocomplete isn't working, that is a sign something about the build process isn't set up right, so other things won't work either ❔
• basic settings being buried deep in the menus is definitely a thing ✅
• if it underlines something, that has always been an error, I think it calls a real Java compiler for this ❌
• freezing at critical moments can occasionally be a thing ✅

#1 and 3, definitely, although 3 is usually not really the IDEs fault.

The others, either not really (#2, 5), who cares, (#4), or maybe occasionally but not really specific to IDEs (#6).

None of those issues for my main IDE, though Rider on some occasions do get stuck marking some spelling errors after they are fixed.

It has stuttered a few times, but pretty rare. But it does have a bug where it think it is building a project, but isn't. And requires a restart to fix... Easy to trigger if you try building a project while it's loading the project...

Visual Stuido with Resharper is the one where things would randomly stop working though. Especially hotkeys would sometimes stop working until I restarted it. Slow and stutter too.

I'd argue the benefits outweigh the downsides

The IDEs of March

Neovim >>> any ide

At least the number of times I have to use the Clean Java Language Workspace in VS Code has declined recently. I mean, I still have to, just not as often.

In my experience, yes. Even coding in the basic notepad makes more sense.

All of those are things that have happened to me (except an IDE that could not handle externally edited files). They are very rare occurrences, but still annoying when I have to get something done.

Thanks for sharing this here 😊😊😊

Meanwhile: vim and Emacs users, constantly installing and configuring plugins to emulate a fraction of the power of IDEs, go "just use vim/Emacs".

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