I know local dev is hard in a complex system, but if tooling prevents you from working for an entire day something is seriously wrong.

I spent a few days fixing a build system to make it easier to fix in the future. This saved me weeks so far. Not sure what kind of control you have over that.

Spend 2 days automating it or spend weeks of your life doing it manually

Automate everything

@fzammetti say all you like, but intellisense, syntax highlight and indexed mapping help a great deal.

It's not impossible to code in vim/npp, but it takes longer and wastes your time debugging simple code snippets for typos.

I wish, but we work with massive proprietary systems that are simply too hard to replicate

@ostream the rest of us, retards in your dictionary, make them

@ostream don't. We should be trying to be better, having you as a perfect example. Not the other way around.

@fzammetti I had IDE in DOS. Macs prob even longer.

@ostream indeed

@fzammetti has a point though.

IntelliSense and other things make things easier.

But one should understand and be able to live without them.

Kinda like the "it's nice to have a GPS navigation system, but don't follow it's commands without thinking - cause you might end up in a lake".

What pisses me off greatly is when devs don't even bother looking for a workaround, instead just go to crying mode and whine how they cannot work at all coz the mean system doesn't work.

... With sometimes really trivial issues like SSH host key changed and they couldn't follow the manual printed out in the app.

Instead they wasted 4 hours of time by crying, more crying, making an ticket in IT, more crying, more bitching, IT solves the problem by following the manual printed out in the app in 10 seconds.

Complex system set up is hard, yes.

Especially when multiple services are woven together like an Alexandrian knot, so I can definitely feel the rant.

But I also understand what @fzammeti said cause sometimes I wonder how some people managed to live after their parents threw them out, cause their ability to solve problems on their own is non existent.