Amen. IDEs are a plague. I get interviewees all the time that only know programming through the lens of an IDE. They have no idea how anything works. They consistently do worse in interviews.
I don't understand this comment. Source code is source code. The IDE doesn't write my code. What is an "IDE lens"?
I knew a guy with a heavily customized vim setup for development. He could write code without it because he was so used to his custom config. How is that any different?
>I don't understand this comment. Source code is source code. The IDE doesn't write my code. What is an "IDE lens"?
I have seen many people who have absolutely no idea how the Java compilation process works because they've never had to do it from the command line, but have interacted with it mostly through IDE tools that have abstracted almost everything away.
And when something actually breaks or is idiosyncratic enough for the IDE to not handle it, they end up very lost.
