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by marco_salvatori
2644 days ago
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Throughout my career, I have never met anyone who used MS tools that did not find them excellent and productivity enhancing. In fact I could probably add to MS any of the language vendors from years ago. I remember using Borlands terminal based C++ environment back in the early 90's. That's about 30 years ago and that environment is better than what I use programming on Linux today. I have often thought that programmers posture over their tool independence to signal their excellence. Before the current generation of programmers, many programmers would proclaim how they didn't need to use higher level languages to assist them in programming because assembly language was sufficient given their reasoning powers. Today programmers proclaim they don't need types to insure data invariants as their reasoning powers are sufficient. They proclaim they don't get any value from unit testing because they can maintain correctness across all development phases using their reasoning powers alone. They proclaim they don't need automatic garbage collection because they can insure correct memory usage using their reasoning powers. They have no use for IDEs, debuggers, or profilers because they believe none of these tools could augment their reasoning powers. Excellent programmers can indeed compensate for poor tooling through their reasoning powers alone. But if history is a guide, people who don't use the best tools, practices and technologies to produce the best work, at some point, wont produce the best work. |
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If there wasn't gdb/lldb at all, I'm pretty sure Linux/BSD would have a debugger that's far better than any closed source counterpart.