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by black-tea 2619 days ago
I see a correlation, but I am an emacs user. One thing that rings true is how people use git. I find that the people who use IDEs to do it just want to do it the IDE way, like always merging with --no-ff, and not actually thinking about what they're doing and coming up with their own solution to the merge.

> I see a similar thing happening with coders who do a lot of tests (test driven development),

I mean, yes, but isn't that obvious why? In my work I can safely say I've written the most code in the shortest amount of time. This has allowed us to meet deadlines. But it's all untested. Writing tests obviously takes more time and effort, but I do think they are a good thing. Getting 100% test coverage for every project and following TDD too strictly is silly, though.