r/programmingcirclejerk • u/vdotcodes • 11d ago

Very little quality, let alone high-quality, code is written in VSCode.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49395839
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u/determineduncertain 11d ago

What do they mean? All of my code is underlined in red which means that it’s fire right?

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u/camelCaseIsWebScale Just spin up O(n²) servers 11d ago

After some constant propagation

Very little quality, let alone high-quality, code is written

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u/hedgehog1024 Rust apologetic 10d ago

That's right! Nowadays high quality code is not written, it is generated in tokens.

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u/elephantdingo Teen Hacking Genius 5d ago

And the difference matters and is real.

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u/levelstar01 what is pointer :S 11d ago

This is an astonishing assertion. Can you back that up with evidence?

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u/Gamiac 11d ago

Ummm, SOURCE? 🤓

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u/affectation_man Code Artisan 10d ago

CODE. QUALITY. METRICS. I'm not gonna spoonfed you, you have access to Google

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u/fossilesque- How many times do I need to mention Free Pascal? 6d ago

No

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u/EpicCelloMan54 11d ago

This, in a thread which started with OP asking what an "LSP" is

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u/des_the_furry 16h ago

Lerbal space program

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u/androgynyjoe 11d ago

Joke's on him because all of my code is shit and I've never even opened VSCode.

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u/rwilcox 10d ago

Everyone knows every line of code written with Emacs is pure 100% gold.

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u/VanillaSkyDreamer 11d ago

How about notepad?

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u/lgastako 11d ago

Notepad++ for sure.

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u/hedgehog1024 Rust apologetic 10d ago

No-no, you don't get it. Paper notepad.

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u/[deleted] 10d ago

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u/hyrumwhite 10d ago

I have not seen their code, but after working with their API, I can only say, they are some of the developers of all time

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u/Calamero 10d ago

Superior codebases are written with a vim MPC and a bespoke type.md and low latency cli agentic coding. Removes the code writing bottleneck…

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u/hyrumwhite 10d ago

I wouldn’t know, I haven’t looked at my code since 2023

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u/ao_zame 8d ago

Mommy said I only write high quality code