IDE-isms - How does your IDE affect your coding style?

I have to think IDE's had a lot to do with the insanely long names used in objective-C. I'm not super aware of Apple's history before xcode, but I would imagine auto-complete would have a lot to do with this convention.

I noticed that when writing C++ is CLion, I tend to initialize member reference variables with () instead of {}.

// CLion < 2017.3
struct Foo {
    Foo(Bar& bar): _bar(bar) {
    }

    Bar& _bar;
}

// CLion >= 2017.3
struct Foo {
    Foo(Bar& bar): _bar{bar} {
    }

    Bar& _bar;
}

This was because CLion had an some issues with initialization lists, and kept warning me that the latter is wrong. Now that the bug is fixed, my code style is changing.

Huh, never thought about it. But I guess it makes sense. I don't use IDEs, but one of the many supercharged text editors that and trending lately (like Sublime, Atom or VS Code).

I used to write very messy code once. Now I think I've improved a lot, but I don't know if it's more because of the editor, or just because of necessity :)

The best thing that helped me improve my code style is the multi-cursor. The second best is a hotkey to expand the current selection to the next occurence (usually Ctrl/Cmd+D).

Recently I've switched to VS Code like a lot of developers, and even though I thought I could do without Intellisense, it's a very nice thing to have. I'm not sure if that influenced my code style, but surely it's changed how I write code.

I'm coding in PHP and PHPStorm + plugins (PHP EA inspections & more) are changing my way to code.

It force me to apply best practice, the code sniffer tell me that I'm not PSR compliant (standards recommandations).

It make me a better developer :)

For myself I don't know if it's the IDE itself (VS Code) but actually taking the time to set up linting plugins (actually just eslint) has definitely changed (standardized, if not improved) my style. I need to find a good guide to programming js with VS Code because I'd like to take advantage of feaures like intellisense for my modules and automagical beautification.

I'm so crusty at this point that I get frustrated with the IDE if it doesn't conform to my style. :)

/grumpy-old-man-reply

VS Code's ability to pull in types on JavaScript if you declare them in JSDoc encourages me to make sure I comment my exported values completely.

I think auto-completion (with Intellisense or the likes of it) has changed the way I name & scope things. Namespaces (or modules, or whatever your language supports) are a nice way to filter out completions quickly. Prefixes are useful as well.

Nah. I use VS Code or Vim sometimes. In Java I use Eclipse but that doesn't really affect me too much.
I think linting changes my coding styles but they're not really IDE-specific.

If the IDE has some linting capability, then I pay more attention to things like extra whitespace. Otherwise I style my code the same across any IDE - or anywhere else I write code for that matter.

When writing in Visual Studio my curly brackets for methods are on a new line but when I use any of the Jetbrains editors I leave the first on on the same line.