I personally like tools that remove the most cognitive load off of me as possible. Stuff like auto-complete+intellisense+in-editor-documentation are all things that save my brain from needing to "think" about those things as they are just there.
So the best tools in that case aren't something you decide to use or not use, rather it's something that is just being used continually without you even knowing it, but you leverage it.
In that sense tools that are integrated into what your working on creates the best developer experience.
In an ideal software engineering world, engineers would only expend mental energy on figuring out how best to build features that delight users. All the other things that distract an engineer's mind just make it slower/harder to build what users actually want.
I personally like tools that remove the most cognitive load off of me as possible. Stuff like auto-complete+intellisense+in-editor-documentation are all things that save my brain from needing to "think" about those things as they are just there.
So the best tools in that case aren't something you decide to use or not use, rather it's something that is just being used continually without you even knowing it, but you leverage it.
In that sense tools that are integrated into what your working on creates the best developer experience.
100% this.
In an ideal software engineering world, engineers would only expend mental energy on figuring out how best to build features that delight users. All the other things that distract an engineer's mind just make it slower/harder to build what users actually want.
Oh I love this idea, thank you for sharing. Cognitive load is such a big factor - any way in which it can be reduced, improves any experience 🙌