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by post-it 1085 days ago
> You're setting up an uber-sophisticated IDE

You just install it.

> learning a little C and potentially fixing an up-to-date and beloved library

A romantic thought, but 99% of the time I'm just going to do a workaround or a local patch.

I don't use Java anymore, but I don't hate it. I think it has some verbose conventions, but I vastly prefer it to C's extremely terse conventions.

Nowadays I try to do as much in TypeScript as I can, because I find it a pleasure to use, and it has the same property where you can dive into any lib when debugging.
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throwaway2037 1081 days ago 

    uber-sophisticated IDE
I love this. As if any developer is not much more productive with a 4GB+ RAM IDE churning away at their code base and suggesting all sorts of things as you write code. OMG: See ClangTidy! All C++ IDEs these days are either directly incorpating ClangTidy, or copying its features. When I use CLion, as a medium-level C++ programmer, it is scary how good are the suggestions from ClangTidy!
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throwaway2037 1085 days ago
Monkey patching in-house proprietary libraries without source code is also such a nice feature of Java. (Can this be done with C#? I assume yes.)
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