Comments on: ReSharper – Saint or Sinner http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/uncategorized/resharper-saint-or-sinner/ Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:31:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Dmitry Kandalov http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/uncategorized/resharper-saint-or-sinner/#comment-19 Dmitry Kandalov Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:26:00 +0000 http://sarahtarap.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/resharper-saint-or-sinner/#comment-19 I cannot really judge about reshaper because I only used it several times. But from what I've seen its features seem to be somewhat similar to those in IntelliJ which I use a lot. I also found that using powerful tool affects the way I code. For me it's the ease of refactorings that makes me do them without thorough thinking or just to see what the result might look like. The other thing is that powerful IDE features make me feel like I can have dirty design and still get away with safe refactorings. I don't feel that cool features affect my knowledge of code and class/package dependencies, though. Watching dependencies in IntelliJ is a lot of fun with <a HREF="http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/features/dependency_analysis.html" REL="nofollow" rel="nofollow">Dependencies Structure Matrix</a> :) I cannot really judge about reshaper because I only used it several times. But from what I’ve seen its features seem to be somewhat similar to those in IntelliJ which I use a lot. I also found that using powerful tool affects the way I code. For me it’s the ease of refactorings that makes me do them without thorough thinking or just to see what the result might look like. The other thing is that powerful IDE features make me feel like I can have dirty design and still get away with safe refactorings. I don’t feel that cool features affect my knowledge of code and class/package dependencies, though. Watching dependencies in IntelliJ is a lot of fun with Dependencies Structure Matrix :)

]]> By: Brian http://sarahtaraporewalla.com/uncategorized/resharper-saint-or-sinner/#comment-18 Brian Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:34:00 +0000 http://sarahtarap.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/resharper-saint-or-sinner/#comment-18 Sarah,<br/><br/>ReSharper is a refactoring tool, not a developer, not even a pair programmer. Even if you don't use ReSharper and hold on to the standard refactoring tools provided by Visual Studio, or even if you don't even use them, you're still responsible for your code, no? But even with such a tool, it's up to the developer to output high quality code. I can hand you a Mont Blanc pen, but if your handwriting isn't very 'readable', would you blame the maker of the pen if I can't read your writing?<br/><br/>On the other hand, I share with you the same feeling of NOT having ReSharper installed and ready to use in a development workstation. It reminds me of the first time I had Orea cookies with milk...I'll never go back eating them alone. Sarah,

ReSharper is a refactoring tool, not a developer, not even a pair programmer. Even if you don’t use ReSharper and hold on to the standard refactoring tools provided by Visual Studio, or even if you don’t even use them, you’re still responsible for your code, no? But even with such a tool, it’s up to the developer to output high quality code. I can hand you a Mont Blanc pen, but if your handwriting isn’t very ‘readable’, would you blame the maker of the pen if I can’t read your writing?

On the other hand, I share with you the same feeling of NOT having ReSharper installed and ready to use in a development workstation. It reminds me of the first time I had Orea cookies with milk…I’ll never go back eating them alone.

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