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Ask HN: What modern “legendary” programmer prefers IDE other than Vim or Emacs?

by mattewong on 11/22/22, 11:27 PM with 25 comments

• by orf on 11/23/22, 12:46 AM

  Honest question: what’s the point of this question? what does it matter?

  If “legendary programmers” all chiseled bits into a disk with a scalpel would that make it a good idea?

  Use whatever makes you comfortable and allow others to do the same. Don’t emulate or even care about “legendary programmers” tooling.

• by athielking on 11/23/22, 12:04 AM

  I know John Carmack prefers an IDE. I believe he talks about it in this interview with Lex Fridman

  https://youtu.be/I845O57ZSy4

• by tails4e on 11/23/22, 12:59 AM

  Andreas kling of serenityOS uses clion, and makes good use of its features. He's an awesome programmer, and no doubt proficient in vim if he needs to be, but seeing him interact with the IDE does shown its use, especially with the speed he operates at.

• by mattl on 11/22/22, 11:43 PM

  So anyone programming in the last 25 years or so?

  25 years ago I was using a mix of Visual Studio and Emacs. 25 years later I use Emacs a bit but don’t write much code. I use BBEdit more than Emacs now.

• by themodelplumber on 11/22/22, 11:33 PM

  I remembered this Geany example.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePZEkbbf3fc

  Bio:

  > My name is Kamil Dębowski (or Errichto) and I'm quite good at competitive programming. I'm a finalist of multiple big programming competitions like ICPC, Facebook Hacker Cup and Google Code Jam (even got 2nd place in 2018). I also organize competitions, which means inventing and preparing problems.

  Not sure if they still use Geany, or if you consider this person legendary (some people really gatekeep around words like that), but there's at least a data point for you.

• by wilg on 11/23/22, 4:42 AM

  emacs and vim people write code that is as confusing as their editors. change my view

• by smoldesu on 11/22/22, 11:33 PM

  I dunno. Mark Zuckerberg?