The ideal developer experience for me has nothing to do with technology. The technology matters very little compared with the people you work with. I am equally productive in C++, Typescript/React, Haskell, whatever. It doesn't matter. What matters is having a great boss, great people working with you, and a project that has real positive impact.
Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the ideal developer experience in 2020?
#92I contribute to an open source project written in C# that was previously windows-only. When dotnet core came out, I led the effort to port the project to Linux, using Emacs and omnisharp-roslyn which offers intellisense-style code completion via company-mode. Emacs+C#+omnisharp is pretty darn close to my ideal development experience. My Emacs config is not particularly long nor particularly involved, and in fact one…
would you share a gist to you emacs config ? maybe even a medium article about your setup ?.....