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Originally Posted by edgeprod
Not so much weird as inefficient. It's like the quaint shop owner who still figures out your total by hand -- a cash register would be a more efficient choice.
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Not disagreeing with you in the slightest.
But there is a reason jquery is what it is now. I could go write pages and pages of javascript to accomplish various things on websites, but instead I'll drop in the jquery library and then only write 15 lines of code to accomplish it.
However the same could be said for even writing a php script (that was so complex it would need an IDE) from scratch instead of starting off with one of the many great open source platforms out there today. There isn't a single thing you could program today in which 99% of would not be reinventing the wheel.
Again, not questioning that an IDE is more efficient. Just stating that the majority of the time if you're writing something so complex an IDE would save you time/energy - you might already be going about the script in an inefficient way.
