Programmer Humor

Yeah, it doesn't fit the template but the low IQ version would be more like "You only need ChatGPT for coding."

Every self-taught programmer I've seen starts off hacking at something in Notepad.

Depends on where you start. When your first contact is HTML its not too unusual to use a text editor for development.

Why debugger when print?

It depends on what you do, but generally I can't argue against a debugger.

gdb works great without an IDE, and many text editors have autocomplete.

Most text editors like vim/emacs/ect have ways of using a debugger.

I remember vim being a bit involved, but the performance was awesome.

But then if you put enough bells and whistles on text editors, do they become an ide?

https://xkcd.com/378/

On the contrary most people I know who "really know their shit" are using neovim and cli tools.

So, you've never known any Unix hackers? I worked for a student datacenter when I was at university, and we were mostly vim users; as far as text-editor diversity, we did have one guy who was into emacs and another who preferred nano. After that, I went to work at Google, where I continued to use vim. As far as fancy IDE features, I do use syntax highlighting and I know how to use the spell checker but I don't use autocomplete. I've heard of neovim but don't have a good reason to try it out yet; maybe next decade?

It's all variable, and highly dependent on the languages you use, the types of applications you develop, your personal workflows, what you learned with and got used to as you were learning to program, and a myriad of other factors. Painting in broad strokes, like what the meme is doing or what you're doing, is almost never correct. There's always nuance.

If you're in a jvm or Microsoft heavy environment then maybe so.

I know more than one person (I think 4, including me) who code for a living and essentially live in tmux.

Just for reference, because programming is not one big tent, as far as I know most people working professionally developing for the Linux kernel, gcc and glic uses only a text editor and "Unix as your IDE". I never tried myself but I have a feeling that any IDE with git integration would just immediately cry trying to interact with the kernel or gcc git repo. Even gits own PS1 status feature slows to crawl in this repos.

Lots of simpler editors gained tab completion support over the last few years, thanks to the LSP protocol. I have it in Kate, for example.

Real men build their own toolchains.

Already joined the emacs cult. Youre too late.

If you write C code in a text file and rename the file extension to .exe and try to run it the CPU will do something.

What, you dont program in binary? What a noob.

Kate, my beloved