Modern programming is more than just the tool chain and package management. To me modern programming is more the wider adoption of concepts borrowed from languages like Haskell: like pattern matching and safer null checks (like Maybe or Option types). It also includes easy to use coroutines or a good concurrency story. Programming with new languages comes with more compile time checking and linting, less chances to make simple stupid typo-like errors that take hours to debug. The formatting and package management are all part of this of course.
I don't really hear people call vim or emacs old fashioned too much anymore. There are a lot of new vim and neovim and spacemacs users out there.
The social aspects of coding are very nice too. It's so great to be able to search GitHub for code to see how other people solved a similar problem to one I might be having.
I don't really hear people call vim or emacs old fashioned too much anymore. There are a lot of new vim and neovim and spacemacs users out there.
The social aspects of coding are very nice too. It's so great to be able to search GitHub for code to see how other people solved a similar problem to one I might be having.