On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 07:23, mike james <mike.ja...@infomaxgroup.co.uk> wrote: > As to NetBeans - well it is the best of the current general purpose IDEs. > Notice "general purpose". Visual Studio used to be good ...
Well, all tooling is terrible, just some are less terrible than others! ;-) Reminds me that there's a great section about Visual Studio and a conversation with Chris Granger in https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/ """ He told me that while he was at Microsoft, he arranged an end-to-end study of Visual Studio, the only one that had ever been done. For a month and a half, he watched behind a one-way mirror as people wrote code. “How do they use tools? How do they think?” he said. “How do they sit at the computer, do they touch the mouse, do they not touch the mouse? All these things that we have dogma around that we haven’t actually tested empirically.” The findings surprised him. “Visual Studio is one of the single largest pieces of software in the world,” he said. “It’s over 55 million lines of code. And one of the things that I found out in this study is more than 98 percent of it is completely irrelevant. All this work had been put into this thing, but it missed the fundamental problems that people faced. And the biggest one that I took away from it was that basically people are playing computer inside their head.” Programmers were like chess players trying to play with a blindfold on—so much of their mental energy is spent just trying to picture where the pieces are that there’s hardly any left over to think about the game itself. """ There's a lot we could learn from about IDEs in general there and in the wider article! Best wishes, Neil --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@netbeans.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@netbeans.apache.org For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
