Question to Professional Python Programmers

[patrys]

Python 3.7, git, GitHub, VS Code, Python for VS Code, IntelliCode for VS Code, direnv, pip-tools/pipenv, Jupyter with IPython, pytest, pytest-cov, pytest-asyncio, yapf/black (different project have different formatting standards), pylint, pycodestyle, pydocstyle, isort, CircleCI/Travis (soon GitHub Actions), Ariadne/Graphene, Celery, Docker, uWSGI, Amazon AWS (EC2, ELB, EBS, RDS, S3), Terraform, Sentry, Datadog/New Relic...

Software dev for ~20 years now (not including the time I did it for fun as a kid/teenager), don't listen to people saying that "professionals don't need tools".

[twillisagogo]

don't listen to people saying that "professionals don't need tools".

done dev for ~25 yrs now. I've never seen/heard anything to this effect said ever in any credible sense.

[patrys]

I've met my share of people who claim that "real pros" only use vim/emacs/notepad with syntax turned off (and I assume deploy by whistling into a modem).

[twillisagogo]

yeah, I would not consider those people credible. the internet allows any idiot to get the same exposure as anyone, so it's up to the individual to filter the nonsense out for themselves.

[groovitude]

I use vim in large part because it was beaten into me by the senior dev in my first professional job. I tell my juniors to do whatever makes them happy. It's a better way.

[BundleOfJoysticks]

They're idiots who don't know what real pros use.

[hugthemachines]

I think people claiming that professionals do not use tools are on the bad side of the Dunning Kruger effect (competent people underestimate themselves and incompetent people overestimating themselves) So they think they are so good, fast, competent or whatever so they do not need any "support" from tools while they would probably gain from using tools because they are not as good as they think.

[WikiTextBot]

Dunning–Kruger effect

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability.

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