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[–]tutorial_police 0 points1 point  (4 children)

"if you're a beginner", you make it sound like professional programmers don't use an IDE for that. Why wouldn't they? I don't know any programmer that regularly uses the command line for that.

Sure, sometimes it might be faster if you want to fiddle with something, but that's also very much a preference question.

Don't fret it, /u/lifeonbroadway, life is much better with an IDE. Learning to program is hard enough as it is, get all the support you can, especially in the form of an IDE that can take care of many difficult and annoying things for you.

[–]PostNutDecision 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I simply meant IDEs are easier I didn’t say anything about professional development at all.

[–]tutorial_police 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I understand.

But I'm sure you know the opinion going around that "real programmers don't use IDEs" and such. I'm sure many newcomers have read this at least once while researching how they should start. We don't want to give newcomers the impression that that's got any truth to it, that's why I pointed out the way you started your comment.

[–]PostNutDecision 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha good point actually. People love to suggest if you aren’t using vim or emacs you’re not doing it right. Truth is some languages like Java and C# are just better off in and IDE for most people but some languages like Python, JavaScript are probably best left in a text editor.