Fair enough. I agree in the sense that typing isn't what takes up my programming time. 1000 lines of code at 100 wpm (which most coders could beat) is what, 10 minutes? I wish. I've spent hours on a single regex.
I think efficiency and accessibility are at odds with each other to some extent, and we've more neglected accessibility and flattening the learning curve, because we don't need it, we already know how to code. But custom software is basically a subscription service to the programmers that created it. I had a client that hired a guy who had invented his own programming language and built their whole system, then disappeared on not great terms. Boy were they in trouble.
But come to think of it, regex is a perfect example of something that could probably be interactively visualized and made more efficient. Let's ask google.
So I'm in vim or visual studio or whatever and I want to use this plugin and I... what? Google it in a browser and copy and paste regexes back and forth? This is so not 2021. The lack of a shared information model between tools/paradigms jumps out as a big shortcoming.
In the JetBrains IDEs, you can pop up a little inline interactive regex editor + tester widget, type in some candidate text, and edit your regex until the candidate text goes green.
I think efficiency and accessibility are at odds with each other to some extent, and we've more neglected accessibility and flattening the learning curve, because we don't need it, we already know how to code. But custom software is basically a subscription service to the programmers that created it. I had a client that hired a guy who had invented his own programming language and built their whole system, then disappeared on not great terms. Boy were they in trouble.
But come to think of it, regex is a perfect example of something that could probably be interactively visualized and made more efficient. Let's ask google.
Yup: https://www.debuggex.com/
So I'm in vim or visual studio or whatever and I want to use this plugin and I... what? Google it in a browser and copy and paste regexes back and forth? This is so not 2021. The lack of a shared information model between tools/paradigms jumps out as a big shortcoming.