I get the point here, and I think these are so cool (I'm a big fan of shortcuts), but how exactly does this make you a better developer in any way? It's not a typing competition, you gain nothing by being ~3.2s faster than a developer that needs to type all that manually, with an overhead of having to learn all of these, and not to talk about the unnecessary abstraction which makes you forget how to write code without these.
I'm honestly not trying to be a smartass or anything, just wanna hear an opinion on this? Over customisation of the IDE (this happens with vim a lot) makes the developer incapable of writing code in anything other than their machine.
The post doesn't talk about being better, just faster.
This should be used when you already know what you're doing, not the other way around. But that option relies on the developer. It's not better to not have options than to have them.
You could also argue that then we shouldn't event use VSCode, only Notepad or Vim with no plug-ins if you're a "real" developer.
You can write React apps with notepad, but having a code editor with all sorts of plug-ins helps a lot.
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I get the point here, and I think these are so cool (I'm a big fan of shortcuts), but how exactly does this make you a better developer in any way? It's not a typing competition, you gain nothing by being ~3.2s faster than a developer that needs to type all that manually, with an overhead of having to learn all of these, and not to talk about the unnecessary abstraction which makes you forget how to write code without these.
I'm honestly not trying to be a smartass or anything, just wanna hear an opinion on this? Over customisation of the IDE (this happens with vim a lot) makes the developer incapable of writing code in anything other than their machine.
The post doesn't talk about being better, just faster.
This should be used when you already know what you're doing, not the other way around. But that option relies on the developer. It's not better to not have options than to have them.
You could also argue that then we shouldn't event use VSCode, only Notepad or Vim with no plug-ins if you're a "real" developer.
You can write React apps with notepad, but having a code editor with all sorts of plug-ins helps a lot.