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> In weakly typed languages like TypeScript

I guess you mean JavaScript?

In regards to speed, I really really recommend Vim. Macros are sorely missing in a lot of editors, and they are really a great way to skip a huge amount of repetitive work.

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No, I think he means Typescript. Typescript doesn’t have (or even tries to have) a sound type system. It’s good to know its limitations and try to avoid code that will blow up despite passing type checking.

Can you give some examples of what you use macros for? I've found I don't need macros in an editor that supports (1) multiple cursors, and (2) multi-file find/replace with regex groups.

Now that I think about it, I'm not sure I can come up with any non-contrived example (maybe this [1]). I guess what's good is that it fits right into the rest of Vim very nicely, so I can just edit like normal, instead of fiddling with regexes.

[1] https://youtube.com/watch?v=FXCitlsA7eQ

What a fun example! That's exactly the sort of stuff I use multiple cursors/regex for. Due to a bit of luck (the refs only appear once, and only appear in order of mention), that specific example ends up being quite a bit easier and faster with multiple cursors (and I believe his example also relies on that). For the more general case, multiple cursors wouldn't cut it though, so I'd have to jump out and use code. And multiple cursors definitely wouldn't scale to multiple docs!

For fun, I did that same example with multiple cursors + vs code: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1uvNbtqJGk

What kind of editor/IDE made for programming is missing macros?? Must be a really shitty one if it can't even do that.

Neither Visual Studio nor Xcode have them.

VSCode, I think?

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