Can they solve the same problems as IT pros? Sure! But it’ll take them longer and the solution might be a little weird.

Well the person just wants a solution that works. They didn’t say it has to be the best solution of all solutions.

Vim or emacs? I mean I know they were created a long time ago, but they are both pretty good pieces of software, both highly configurable. I don’t understand people aversion to them, rather than having the false belief that they are too complicated? When in reality they just aren’t intuitive in terms of modern stuff. But they aren’t difficult, just different.

I’d be more worried if someone who uses the internet to such a degree that they use Lemmy over Reddit, on a programming forum, didn’t get the reference. This is famous hacker lore at this point.

Yet, I do. So, I like to enforce it.

I used to be a tabs guy, somepoint over time, especially when I realized some of the edge cases I have in formatting only remain consistent when using spaces, I switched.

And over gofmt, rustfmt lets you set settings for the project. Keeps the code looking how I want, and contributers don’t have to care.

Scrolling to a line number seems inefficient.

Haven’t they defederated temporarily? Just to get things under control with the Reddit influx?

I presume, since this whole instance is programming specifically, it makes sense to have programming communities here, even if other instances have their own.