Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)

Post by SuperSandro2000 » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 4:47 PM UTC

LVB wrote: post #130

GitHub Copilot As a manager & parent with only occasional bursts of time to code (some work, mostly side/fun stuff), Copilot has turned out to be incredibly useful in smoothing over all of the small things I'm slow at because I don't do them daily. And especially since I have limited time, I just want to get the damn thing working and am quite happy to my way there as quickly as possible.

Post by michaelcampbell » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 4:49 PM UTC

ivanjermakov wrote: post #186

dougdonohoe wrote: post #159

Gotta say IntelliJ, which isn't just for Java. It's a great coding platform and I used it for Scala, Go, Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Perl, you name it. I know many people like to hate on IDEs, but IntelliJ (and/or its language-specific variants like PyCharm or GoLand) has great support for all the debuggers in the above languages. It has awesome search/replace. Being able to "drill down" in to code, including 3rd party…

I've tried to migrate to something more lightweight like (neo)?vim, Helix, emacs; but regardless of how good their syntax awareness/LSP support is, it's always inferior to JetBrains IDEs. Simple example: (any language, e.g. Rust) rename a function across multiple files and undo it. Let me know how you'd do it in your editor of choice.

Post by patrick451 » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

tasuki wrote: post #493

patrick451 wrote: post #357

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's so curious to me that functional disciples wear this as a badge of honor. In nearly all other facets of software development, we get badgered that it's better to produce code your entire team understands (code is read more often than written and all that) than code which only makes sense to you. If I ran around talking up the zen of single letter variables, my team would shoo me out of the room, and almost nobod…

> If I ran around talking up the zen of single letter variables, my team would shoo me out of the room, and almost nobody on HN would applaud me for it. Yes, because single letter variables are bad. > But for some reason, functional programming tends to get a pass, despite it just not clicking for a large swath of team mates. Perhaps this is a problem with the team mates rather than with functional programming? I'm t…

Post by boyter » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 7:14 PM UTC

philomath_mn wrote: post #421

boyter wrote: post #337

Going to say my own https://github.com/boyter/scc/ which I have used to turn down projects of "Oh we just need to do X" It allows me to evaluate the code-base quickly and see where potential issues are, and find hidden complexity in the code. I have said no a lot due to it. The only reason it exists was because I got caught out from another project, which wasted months of my time. Otherwise IntelliJ and the JetBrains…

Are the COCOMO estimates useful at all for you? That always comes up when I look at code metrics but I have a hard time believing they mean anything

Post by jyounker » Wed, Dec 21, 2022, 7:48 PM UTC

SOLAR_FIELDS wrote: post #414

dougdonohoe wrote: post #159

Gotta say IntelliJ, which isn't just for Java. It's a great coding platform and I used it for Scala, Go, Python, Bash, Java, PHP, Perl, you name it. I know many people like to hate on IDEs, but IntelliJ (and/or its language-specific variants like PyCharm or GoLand) has great support for all the debuggers in the above languages. It has awesome search/replace. Being able to "drill down" in to code, including 3rd party…

“dealing with merge conflicts are a breeze” is an understatement. I don’t use IntelliJ typically in my day to day anymore, but the merge conflict resolution UI offered in IntelliJ is so far and above alternatives that I would still reach for it in a particularly complex scenario. VSCode’s UI does not even remotely approach how good IntelliJ’s is. I’m not aware of any UI that does merge conflicts as well as IntelliJ c…