Ways to Begin

[writerkit]

No one ever mentions that the first step is not learning how code works, but failing at installing your development environment.

Comments

[writerkit]

It's what he uses at work, I gather, but he's using Perl. What he said was that I shouldn't be using a language-specific editor; I should be using one that spans multiple languages so I don't have to learn a new one every time I learn a new language.

[jducoeur]

While that is a common viewpoint, most people nowadays have moved towards using IntelliJ or VSCode for that purpose -- they are also largely language-neutral.

(Actually, VSCode is rather more language-neutral than Eclipse is: it has a much newer, much cleverer architecture, which is why the Scala community is very enamored of it.)