Programmer Humor

Yeah, it doesn't fit the template but the low IQ version would be more like "You only need ChatGPT for coding."

Every self-taught programmer I've seen starts off hacking at something in Notepad.

Depends on where you start. When your first contact is HTML its not too unusual to use a text editor for development.

https://xkcd.com/378/

Just need a magnetized needle and a steady hand.

On the contrary most people I know who "really know their shit" are using neovim and cli tools.

So, you've never known any Unix hackers? I worked for a student datacenter when I was at university, and we were mostly vim users; as far as text-editor diversity, we did have one guy who was into emacs and another who preferred nano. After that, I went to work at Google, where I continued to use vim. As far as fancy IDE features, I do use syntax highlighting and I know how to use the spell checker but I don't use autocomplete. I've heard of neovim but don't have a good reason to try it out yet; maybe next decade?

It's all variable, and highly dependent on the languages you use, the types of applications you develop, your personal workflows, what you learned with and got used to as you were learning to program, and a myriad of other factors. Painting in broad strokes, like what the meme is doing or what you're doing, is almost never correct. There's always nuance.

I know more than one person (I think 4, including me) who code for a living and essentially live in tmux.

If you're in a jvm or Microsoft heavy environment then maybe so.

Just for reference, because programming is not one big tent, as far as I know most people working professionally developing for the Linux kernel, gcc and glic uses only a text editor and "Unix as your IDE". I never tried myself but I have a feeling that any IDE with git integration would just immediately cry trying to interact with the kernel or gcc git repo. Even gits own PS1 status feature slows to crawl in this repos.

I’m a “serious professional” who has been developing for over 20 years and I’ve generally prefer a text editor the IDEs that I’ve had to use at work. I find that most IDEs are slow resource hogs that don’t give me features that I actually care about over a fast text editor.

The singular exception was Cider when I was at Google. It was fantastic at wrangling their massive monorepo, and integration with their code review and ticket system was nice. Somehow it was snappy and reliable even though it ran in Chrome.

Nowadays I’ve switched to Helix and use LSPs for the languages I use most. For what it’s worth, those are C, C++, Rust and Python. Mostly Rust and Python now.

The best I know uses mcedit, there definitely life beyond IDEs

I, on the other hand, would not consider someone a serious, competent professional if they were unable to do their job without an IDE. Sure, every serious developer I’ve known uses an IDE or similar for day to day work, but that’s a matter of convenience. In my book “competence” includes being able to do your job without needing your hand held by the IDE.

Already joined the emacs cult. Youre too late.

What, you dont program in binary? What a noob.

If you write C code in a text file and rename the file extension to .exe and try to run it the CPU will do something.

Kate, my beloved

My emacs installs Arch linux. Sometimes.