I’ve used both a type one and type two IDEs in my career.
One thing which is missed in this description is that for many developers using a type one IDE (i.e. Visual Studio or Eclipse), the IDE is the language. The idea of programming in something else rarely, if ever, occurs to them, and programming without such a tool leaves them feeling uncertain — it’s like coding without a net.
I have to admit that after five years of being a type one user, making the switch to type two development tools (i.e. a text editor) was a bit of a challenge. The strangest part was leaving the development environment to look up a language or library reference; I still find the lack of decent documentation is my biggest day-to-day frustration.
But five years later I feel like I’m a much better developer for making the switch.
(Source: dhotson)
Published: Sunday, 15th May 2011 at 1:43 PM
By day, he works for ABC TV as a web developer. By night, he plays bass guitar in Look Who's Toxic. He also runs a little Unix Timestamp conversion site. There are plenty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.
