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Big thanks to Julia for the great illustration!!!
One day, two funny little mice
Discussed free cheese, and cheese for price.
The one, returning from a store
Was so excited to adore:
"You know, Swiss cheese has such a smell!
Oh! I would like inside to dwell!
For me, it's sweet like flower-honey,
And it deserves just any money!"
"See wooden plate that's over there?
I choose THIS dangerous affair.
It is impossible to squeeze
A penny from my purse, for cheese
That's lying here free of charge.
And I don't mind that it's not large.
I love this generous device!" -
And jumps, and grabs the cherished slice.
Behind it something sounds "clap!"
Free cheese is only in a trap!
Who picks a tool for its "FREE" label
Reminds of this didactic fable...
Completing code is simple feature,
But it can feel like magic creature,
When IDE provides completion
As if it's full of intuition.
A techno-rhyme
From time to time
Would come to mind
(Or place of' kind).
It happened to me about a week ago. I was driving home late in the evening. The weather was not very friendly, and there was no nice music on the radio. So, I thought to myself: "If the surrounding cannot make me smile, why don't I try to make my mood nicer by myself?". And I thought I would compose funny rhymes. But since I was driving from the office, after a really hard day, the rhymes resulted in job-related couplets. They sounded really funny, and I decided I would start publishing them on this blog, under the "TechnoRhymes" category.
A developer and an IDE are like a loving couple where developer loves the IDE, and the IDE returns its good for the feeling.
A proverb says that all lucky couples are lucky in the same manner, while all unlucky ones are unlucky differently.
When asking why a developer uses one or another IDE, the answer, in most cases, is simple – he or she is lucky with it. And while people are lucky, you will never succeed in converting them to another IDE. It’s like arguing about whose girl- or boyfriend is better. They are already engaged. Why bother?
At this point, the question “To war, or not to war” could be closed; but only for those who already love and are lucky…
What about those who are not? They may even never complain, because they don’t know they are unlucky. It’s like trying to convince an old bachelor, that being married (or in our terms “engaged with an IDE”) is better than being single. Words - the main weapons in the IDE wars - will not work. Only a disturbingly happy face of a married brother, or neighbor, or colleague, can potentially lead to mind-change.
So, we have only one group left – those who are unlucky and admit this sad fact. But – there’s always some ‘but’ in between - if they complain, complains will almost never be around the same problems, as the proverb says that unluckiness is always different.
And here’s the starting point for what we used to call wars - wars for obtaining admirers, or in other words wars for love. Still love... It’s all about love…
Did anyone succeed in being loved by struggling? Maybe… Not many… How to make people love you? Either they love you just because you are as you are, or they love you because you become as they want you to be. No other way. Same with IDEs – some developers love an IDE just “because”, others don’t, and won’t until it becomes as they’d love it to be.
So, where’s the way out, for an IDE implicated in a war? Keep being what you are; keep getting better, for new love to be born in someone’s heart; finally become a “bachelor’s wife” :-)
That’s it! No wars, just love!