I always want more time in my day. And that’s because I waste all my time trying to think of new ways that would save me time. Which brings me to Github pull requests. One thing I often wish for when reviewing a Github PR: why can’t I quickly jump to the definition of a method being used? Or see where else that piece of code is being called from? Some quick code navigation features would help me do reviews better and quicker. I’ve been spoilt on code completion features in Eclipse IDE and now I want them everywhere. Luckily I get to be in a position I can aim to make that happen.
In thinking about how we can make developer tools and features ubiquitous, I came up with my latest talk: the future of IDEs. I first did this talk within the Internet of Things domain at Thingmonk and had some great feedback. James Governor of Redmonk had this to say about it:
Tracy Miranda, founder of Kichwa Coders, gave us a whistlestop tour of the future of dev tools for IoT. Miranda is a fixture in the Eclipse community, but did a great job of laying out the tools landscape. And of course Microsoft Visual Studio Code got a favourable mention (so much love out there for Code right now, it’s the modern goldilocks text editor). That said, for programming digital twins, she argued we’re going to need visual tools and models, beyond a text editor. Node-Red of course also got a mention.
This talk covers everything from the massive fragmentation with languages and frameworks to making our developer tools more visual, smarter and really so they work everywhere. Even in Github PRs. If you work in developing tools or have strong opinions about how developer tools should work, then this talk is a must watch.
After Thingmonk and the great feedback, I got to refine the talk and present it at Jax London as the ‘Future of IDEs‘. That talk wasn’t recorded but we did manage to have a quick chat about it afterwards, check out the short version (+ extras) here:
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