hunt and peck is probably an exaggeration but typing speed is not the bottleneck for programming twitter.com/id_aa_carmack/status/130265…

This distinction is important imo: twitter.com/danielhoffmann_/status/1302…... Carmack spends more time in algorithmic and less in churning code. I personally spend a lot of time reviewing code and looking for bugs, and I wouldn’t be able to live without a feature to click through function definition. When I use Xcode to review objective C I feel like have super powers due to their caller hierarchy feature (which lets you quickly go through any of the callers up the stack). When I review other code with other IDE I feel disabled. Unfortunately I spent very little time using Xcode in my career.

John Carmack admitted a while back that he's not much of a power user when it comes to text editors. twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/130265…

Tip: You can replace twitter.com with nitter.net and read tweets outside of Twitter's awful web UI. nitter.net/id_aa_carmack/status/1302651… There are browser extensions to automate this too but I haven't tried any yet.

Responding to one of Carmack's follow-up tweets (twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/130265…): > Yes, it can be very impressive watching people using the power tools to maximum advantage, and sometimes is can be a dramatic win, but I usually think that it adds up to... a few minutes saved a day? I think measuring the gains of text editing features in terms of time is a distraction. Expressive editing features take something tedious and make it effortless. It makes it easy to do something that I'd normally put off. But the reason text editing features end up not being that important is that if the task is mission critical, you'll end up just soldiering through, even if it's tedious. Therefore it's an incremental benefit not a revolutionary one. I like text editing features because I personally like being organized, not because I feel like it makes me a more effective programmer. It lets me indulge myself in keeping code organized without that becoming a time sink.