Knew a programmer that was near blind who only used magnifier on maximum zoom with his IDE. One of the best programmers I met, but his screen looked very much like that. Don't know how he did it.

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Programming happens in the mind. Whats on the screen is a pale and lifeless polaroid devoid of the moving, complex soul of real code.

[–] Nightwind@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well put, however I find code formatting itself has a shape, texture and smell. How the programmer weaves the patterns of formatting tells a lot about his mind and style.

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Agreed; or their mind and style style.

Auto formatting is often too rigid for me and gets in the way of context driving the style.