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When the IDE holy war escalates to absurd new levels in the alley
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When the IDE holy war escalates to absurd new levels in the alley

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Two-panel meme from an action movie fight scene: In the top panel, several men brawl in a narrow street; bold white overlay text above the fighters declares “Notepad is the best IDE” on the left and “MS Word is best IDE” on the right. Faces are blurred, but arms are locked in dramatic grapples and shirts read generic prints. In the bottom panel, the same scuffle continues down the street while new overlay text states “MS Paint is the Best IDE,” implying an even more ridiculous stance. The imagery humorously exaggerates the perennial developer arguments over editor preferences by substituting clearly inappropriate tools, poking fun at the passion and irrationality of IDE debates among programmers

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Notepad, Word, Paint… cute. The system that prints money around here is a 6k-line Excel macro that concatenates SOAP by hand - and nobody’s volunteered to refactor it since 2009
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Notepad, Word, Paint… cute. The system that prints money around here is a 6k-line Excel macro that concatenates SOAP by hand - and nobody’s volunteered to refactor it since 2009

  2. Anonymous

    The real senior engineers know the truth: MS Excel with VBA macros is the only IDE you need - it's Turing complete, has built-in version control (just email yourself 'final_v2_FINAL_actually_final.xlsm'), and your PM already understands the interface

  3. Anonymous

    The real power move is when someone walks in claiming Butterflies (xkcd #378) is the best IDE - at least with MS Paint you get syntax highlighting if you're creative enough with the color palette. Though I suppose debugging in Paint does give 'pixel-perfect precision' a whole new meaning when hunting for that missing semicolon

  4. Anonymous

    Notepad: the senior dev's IDE - zero bloat, regex find/replace crushes any extension marketplace, and it's outlived every 'revolutionary' competitor

  5. Anonymous

    Call it an Integrated Debate Environment: the moment MS Paint shows up, someone’s about to commit diagram_final_FINAL.png to main and call the monolith compiled

  6. Anonymous

    Real toolchain: Notepad for the 3am hotfix, Word for the incident report, and Paint for the architecture diagram everyone ignores - tell me again which IDE is “best.”

  7. @azizhakberdiev 4y

    Emacs

    1. Deleted Account 4y

      vim😂

      1. @azizhakberdiev 4y

        Did you mean emacs?

  8. @stryker_off 4y

    Paper

  9. @kitbot256 4y

    Magnet

  10. @VolodymyrMeInyk 4y

    Nero Burning Rom

    1. dev_meme 4y

      I mean, they had literally everything in that package!

  11. @knotanalyst 4y

    adobe photoshop reigns supreme

    1. @prirai 4y

      4 GB 😆

  12. Deleted Account 4y

    Ms paint use for QA 😂

  13. @chgk1101 4y

    https://youtu.be/fhSaLx6l9Xk

  14. @sylfn 4y

    i call "PaintCAD" the best IDE (PaintCAD is Russian Paint for old java/symbian phones, and ported to windows)

    1. @p4vook 4y

      Absolutely no one cares about your slavophilic opinions

  15. Deleted Account 4y

    why would you want to use vscode of you already have vim

  16. @BoxCollider2D 2y

    Book and Quill from Minecraft)))

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