[bdavis__]

i tend to agree with you. maybe more than just agree. if any of these "IDE's", or "tools", or whatever they are called actually provided a universal improvement in software quality and development time, then i would change my view.

experienced developer, the tools don't make a difference. VSCode, VisualStudio, Eclipse, tried many of them. This is from my experience, it may or may not be universal.

[solidasparagus]

It's weird to make this argument in a thread about how type inference is only problematic if you aren't using a modern tool that understands the code at a level higher than raw text. Clearly the tool is making a difference.

[ysavir]

> VSCode, VisualStudio, Eclipse, tried many of them. This is from my experience, it may or may not be universal.

Exactly. If specific tools allow specific people to work better, great. I completely support them. But it's unfair to say that what works for some will work for all.

My goal when adapting practices is to adapt the practices that allow each developer on the team to work in the way that's best for them, and to avoid rules that limit developers in their choices.

Always willing to update when a clear case is made, though. Recently I stopped my rule of "80 characters per line max" because I don't think 80 character wide screens are common enough to warrant my consideration. Now I limit line length based on what makes that line of code most easily digestible--whether 30 characters, 80, 140.