Computer Swedens developer columnist Tobias Fjälling the other day answered the question “What should a good development environment include?”. (MÃ¥sten i en bra utvecklingsmiljö - Computer Sweden).
Tobias list:
- Auto-complete
- Refactoring
- Navigationsupport
- Extendability
- Speed
- Debugger
- Code templates
I find this to be spot on what Ola wrote about the other day which I already quoted:
It’s interesting, many Java programmers talk so much about tools, but they never seem to think about their language as a tool.
Tobias seems to be a good guy, I am giving him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he forgot.
Tags: computer_sweden, fit, Java, Programming, tools
Autocomplete is useful when your programming environment (API) is hard to internalize, i.e. when it’s not Human.
Debugger is useful when you don’t have tests.
Code templates are useful when your language is too verbose to type by hand.
I don’t think it’s surprising that some Java developers value these tools.
Congrats on ThoughtWorks.se by the way!
@Aslak:
You are absolutely right.
And thanks :).