logoalt Hacker News

newswasboringtoday at 3:45 PM2 repliesview on HN

That's because you are used to it. I am old enough to have been there during the rise of things like intellisense and language servers, people were making the exact same arguments about them. That not knowing your API to the core makes you a bad programmer. I'm sure for IDEs themselves there were similar arguments and it goes all the way back to Socrates' warning against writing. These arguments always end with "but this time it's different". And inevitably each time it's not.


Replies

insanitybittoday at 5:34 PM

> That not knowing your API to the core makes you a bad programmer.

Seriously, this was a huge thing in C and C++, where you had to know/remember/know to look up very specific error codes and conditions in an API and if you didn't then it was very much considered to be a skill issue. This was maybe 15 years ago.

show 1 reply
inquirerGeneraltoday at 4:04 PM

Go back to 2007 on this blog archive. It's incredible to read

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/author/vcblog/