When you guys think about all the developers you know, do you rather see a positive or a negative correlation between the usage of high level tools and developer productivity?
In other words, is your experience that developers who use an IDE are more productive then developers who only use a text editor?
In my experience, the (very few) developers I know who only use VIM or Emacs are way more productive then those who use an IDE.
The reason seems to be that they tend to 'sit back and think' about the task at hand. And then come up with elegant solutions. While the developers who use a lot of tooling seem to hope that the tooling will kinda force them to do the right thing. But from what I witness, that never works out.
I see a similar thing happening with coders who do a lot of tests (test driven development), some tests and no tests. Developers who don't write any tests are often the most productive.
In other words, is your experience that developers who use an IDE are more productive then developers who only use a text editor?
In my experience, the (very few) developers I know who only use VIM or Emacs are way more productive then those who use an IDE.
The reason seems to be that they tend to 'sit back and think' about the task at hand. And then come up with elegant solutions. While the developers who use a lot of tooling seem to hope that the tooling will kinda force them to do the right thing. But from what I witness, that never works out.
I see a similar thing happening with coders who do a lot of tests (test driven development), some tests and no tests. Developers who don't write any tests are often the most productive.