[lonelappde]

Similarly, I am embarrassed for devs who type their code in a coddling text editor because they are too ignorant to use ed, the standard text editor, properly.

Computers are for solving problems, not helping programmers, after all, right?

[pfarrell]

My sarcasm detector just exploded.

It’s all a continuum. A great test for mid career programmers is solving a problem from a blank text file. Especially true for more languages with great IDEs like Java or C#

[mygo]

Interestingly, that’s how I started coding and I’m still young(ish).

Borrowed a book from the library as a pre teen and followed along using notepad on my dad’s computer.

I didn’t see syntax highlighting or autocomplete until I was much older. So I can see why some people nowadays aren’t concerned as much with things like indentation. Syntax highlighting adds another dimension of legibility. I couldn’t imagine coding a website even just in plain old html without good indentation if there was no syntax highlighting.