- Dreamweaver, Brackets, TextMate, JetBrains Fleet, etc.
It's totally okay to spend years investing in some proprietary editor, IDE, tool, whatever. Just learn how to learn them quickly and learn how to dump that knowledge with no regrets. Never develop muscle memory, never learn keyboard shortcuts, never build extensions. Who cares if you're using it efficiently or as if you just woke up to it this morning? By the time you try to get comfortable in any tool, it may vanish into obscurity or become something else.
Do not, I implore you, do not learn Emacs or Vim. They both predate every product on this list and will outlast everything on it. You may eventually get comfortable and even start liking your job. Surely, you don't want to start getting paid for having fun?
Indeed. Why people had any beef with:
- Borland Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, Turbo C++, Turbo Assembler, Borland JBuilder
- Visual Basic IDE, Visual SourceSafe, FrontPage
- Dreamweaver, Brackets, TextMate, JetBrains Fleet, etc.
It's totally okay to spend years investing in some proprietary editor, IDE, tool, whatever. Just learn how to learn them quickly and learn how to dump that knowledge with no regrets. Never develop muscle memory, never learn keyboard shortcuts, never build extensions. Who cares if you're using it efficiently or as if you just woke up to it this morning? By the time you try to get comfortable in any tool, it may vanish into obscurity or become something else.
Do not, I implore you, do not learn Emacs or Vim. They both predate every product on this list and will outlast everything on it. You may eventually get comfortable and even start liking your job. Surely, you don't want to start getting paid for having fun?