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by wwilim 1641 days ago
Contrary to what the terminal wizards might tell you about configuring vim, tmux and using grep, just install a real IDE
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You can eat your cake and have it too?

I use an ide for core development but knowledge of vim, tmux and linux tools has served me really well.

Also, it helps that a lot of the similarities in newer IDEs are inspired by the predecessors.

There are times where you can't use the ide (middle of ssh session to a remote server, quick edit in a file w/o loading entire folder &c.), so its worth investing some time into these basic tools.

I switched from using real IDEs to good old fashioned terminal wizardry precisely because I was working on big projects and my IDE was just getting too slow at that scale
intellij?
my CLion drives me nuts everyday because it's constantly re-indexing every time I switch branches. and the project isn't that large