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No. Tools are not there to stay out of the way. They are there to make possible what would otherwise be impossible. Or what would otherwise need more work and effort.
Code readability is an important part of your product. If someone can't understand your code when they have to modify it, they will have to rewrite everything.
And who told you all devs are atheists? -
You know, I can honestly tell you one of the reasons programmers engage in that sort of discussions is because we find it way more interesting than discussing the royal wedding or any other Kardashian scandal.
Programmers get bored easily and fast, those "holy wars" are just entertainment, an excuse to talk to each other and bond through the "hate/love" for tools, methodologies or companies.
The ones who take it seriously are idealistic programmers and they tend to stay in senior roles their whole life, they become the so called wizards.
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Damn, for a bunch of smart atheists programmers are some of the most religious people I've met.
Is it all just holy wars with you people? Everything has to be either terrible or amazing, nothing is just a tool.
Yours is arguably the most advanced and vital profession of the future, yet you're dividing yourself into this fractal of infinite differences, which is frankly fucking ridiculous.
Can you think of any other professionals, so obsessed about their tools? My father is an artist by trade and he wears old clothes, because he gets dirty, mixes new paint with old, dried up crusty stuff to make it last longer and cooks dry crayons in the kitchen oven. Still, his stuff is beautiful.
And that's the thing, you can create beautiful stuff and important stuff without a magical revelation of whether to use emacs or vim or an ide. And noone is going to give a flying rat's ass about your indentation if you can build great software.
Your tools have only one job: to stay out of your way. If a tool is taking more time than you would like away from work, then change it. But for fuck's sake don't then go and spend more time than that saved you on spewing opinionated drivel.
Go out there and solve an important problem! And if you end up writing javascript and php in ms notepad to do it, then think of how much stupider all of the armchair critics will look then.
Peace!
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