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Danny Engelman
Danny Engelman

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And you wonder why young programmers deliver uninspired code?

Us old geezers grew up, learning to program, with:

SoftSide August 1981 (paper magazine)
40 year old computer magazine

My young team members grow up with:

CodeMentor april 2022 ("modern" digital magazine)
2022 educational site for programmers

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Andrew Baisden

I think the same applies to IDE's and code editors too. I work with some more veteran developers who prefer to use Notepad++ for programming. I'm going stick with Visual Studio Code I like my autocomplete and a billion extensions to style it up πŸ˜‚

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Danny Engelman

What is wrong with Vi?

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Andrew Baisden

Whats Vi? Do you mean Emacs? My comment was a bit sarcastic by the way developers can use whatever tools they want we all have our preferences.

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Deon Rich

Vi and Vim are command line editors. Quick and useful, my personal preference.