I think it's on a case by case basis but having help desk ppl help you out and opening powershell and noodling without any concept of problem solving made me make this face once.

It probably goes both ways, I'm a dev and I assembled computers at 12 yo so I believe I have a lot of experience and knowledge when it comes to hardware. I've also written code for embedded platforms.

IT people in my pov can really come across as enthusiast consumers when it comes to their hardware knowledge.

"did you guys hear Nvidia has the new [marketing term] wow!" . Have you ever thought about what [marketing term] actually does past just reading the marketing announcement?

At the same time I swear to God devs who use macs have no idea how computers work at all and I mean EXCLUDING their skill as a dev. I've had them screen share to see what I imagine is a baby's first day on a computer.

To close this rant: probably goes both ways

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago (20 children)

Interesting comment on the Mac. At my workplace we can choose between Mac or Windows (no Linux option unfortunately, my personal computer runs Debian). Pretty much all the principle and senior devs go for Mac, install vim, and live in the command line, and I do the same. All the windows people seem over reliant on VSCode, AI apps, and a bunch of other apps Unix people just have cli aliases for and vim shortcuts. I had to get a loaner laptop from work for a week and it was windows. Tried using powershell and installing some other CLI tools and after the first day just shut the laptop and didn’t work until I got back from travel and started using my Mac again.

[+] [email protected] -19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (14 children)

Lmao, devs who insist on using VIM and the terminal over better graphical alternatives just to seem hardcore are the worst devs who write the worst code.

"Let me name all my variables with a single letter and abbreviations cause I can't be bothered to learn how to setup a professional dev environment with intellisense and autocomplete."

[–] expr 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Spoken like someone who knows absolutely nothing about vim/unix.

[+] [email protected] -21 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I know it has a steep learning curve with no benefit over GUI alternatives (unless you have to operate in a GUI-less environment).

Which makes it flat out dumb for a professional developer to use. "Lets make our dev environment needlessly difficult, slowing down new hires for no reason will surely pay off in the long run".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

This is it -- the dumbest shit I'll read today, and I was just dunking on Nazis.

[–] PoolloverNathan 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can run Neovim on my phone via Termux. I can run Neovim over SSH. I can run Neovim in tmux. That's not possible with VSCode.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I prefer Micro via Terminus

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bruh, there's a whole help page on that:

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

[–] PoolloverNathan 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I have serve-web running as a service, but that only works well on desktop screen layouts — from my experience, it runs terribly on mobile. However, even then, my tab layout isn't synced between devices. My tmux saves all of my open projects, so I could throw my phone in a woodchipper at any moment, pull out my laptop, and be exactly where I left off. Good luck doing that with vscode.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I have serve-web running as a service, but that only works well on desktop screen layouts — from my experience, it runs terribly on mobile.

Congrats, if you're trying to write software from your phone you should be fired as a software engineer.

Again, it is stupid as fuck for any software developer to use VIM. If you have to telnet into some random bullshit server for whatever reason you're obviously in a different position. But real, good, maintainable software is not written and built by teams insisting on creating learning curves for no reason.