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by uticus 1483 days ago
> Intellisense means you barely ever need to type more than 2 characters to express your intent.

Agreed Intellisense is pretty good. Not excellent - it never suggests using statements as a first option, and in unit tests I have to always type "Asser" to bring up "Assert" (using 2022 expensive version). But it pretty good.

From a tooling perspective, this a positive. From a language perspective, well there are other languages that allow flow-of-thought without needing the tooling to autofill [0]. There are tradeoffs, and practically speaking you'll need to eventually look at someone else's flow of thought and expect them to understand yours.

[0] https://www.wisdomandwonder.com/article/10231/if-you-like-li... "...by and large, I find that the language allows me to express myself, in the language, about the things I’m dealing with. I find that a very precious property of a programming language."