I never use snippets. I prefer to invest time in avoiding repetition rather than making it easier. Not to say I never do anything repetitive. @alephnaught2tog
mentioned snippets for common HTML combinations, which could save time. But I also try to avoid getting too invested in my tools.
I think this is somewhat of a personality preference, too. I am a builder rather than a maintainer, so I would never be happy in the long term working on something where snippets were the right tool for the job.
Although I guess you could say helper functions are like snippets. They streamline common combinations of code. A lot of the infrastructure code I've made reads like a DSL and uses helpers for common things. However, they are just reusable code rather than something in an outside tool.
Yeah, as I think about it more too, I feel like the vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast majority of snippets I actually use are either hyperspecific and temporally bound (ie a formatting thing for a specific class requirement) or HTML hunks where there is pretty little there in terms of flexibility anyways.
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I never use snippets. I prefer to invest time in avoiding repetition rather than making it easier. Not to say I never do anything repetitive. @alephnaught2tog mentioned snippets for common HTML combinations, which could save time. But I also try to avoid getting too invested in my tools.
That's how I generally feel about it. Though I can see how avoiding repetition could be difficult to avoid when working on something all day every day
I think this is somewhat of a personality preference, too. I am a builder rather than a maintainer, so I would never be happy in the long term working on something where snippets were the right tool for the job.
Although I guess you could say helper functions are like snippets. They streamline common combinations of code. A lot of the infrastructure code I've made reads like a DSL and uses helpers for common things. However, they are just reusable code rather than something in an outside tool.
Yeah, as I think about it more too, I feel like the vaaaaaaaaaaaaaaast majority of snippets I actually use are either hyperspecific and temporally bound (ie a formatting thing for a specific class requirement) or HTML hunks where there is pretty little there in terms of flexibility anyways.