Am I the only one ?

15+ years in c# / .net dev and I still google "c# string compare ignore case" each time. Its just fucking faster than to remember exact syntax of the "StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase"

Not really. I've worked with a couple dozen languages over all my career, and I couldn't for the life of me remember the exact function call.

That's what Google is for. I don't get paid to know a function name. I get paid to know how to solve a problem and be able to find how to express it in the language I have to.

@CoreFusionX

> That's what Google is for. I don't get paid to know a function name. I get paid to know how to solve a problem and be able to find how to express it in the language I have to.

Would be nice if all managers also understood this..

That is how you tell the cursed standard libraries from the sane ones.

No, you are not.

After 20 years, "code" is this poetry you read to a computer to entice it to do stuff still. Why would I store redundant data such as exact method calls myself when the code I write is for the domain intended to share data (the internet) in the first place? Beats the purpose of it all if you ask me.

It's better to know something about a shitload of stuff and needing Google for the details than to hammer out a few selected statements you have memorized. Talk about stale knowledge.

I still Google how to be read a file into a memorystream just to be sure I do it in the most efficient way. Because that might have changed since last time I did it.

Scott Hanselman nailed it in this blog post:

https://hanselman.com/blog/...

People mock about google driven development but languages were smaller and they still consulted reference

This is why Java doesn’t appeal to me and BE in general. It’s the little things that piss me off

VS2022 is pretty niffty with this now for me. It started suggesting proper long completions

Nah, you’re in good company! 😀