FrozenVoid's (lack of) IDE

http://dis.4chan.org/read/prog/1321439259/23

Reducing typing is a noble goal, but any programmer worth his salt would write a decent .vimrc instead of abusing the cpp.

* All your nifty macros take up half of the code you produce
* These macros need to be lifted from project to project
* You end up producing code that is hard to understand for people who haven't memorized your macros.
* You can't use the macros while hacking *any* OSS

in short: learn to use a decent IDE and all these cpp abuses become obsolete. have a nice day.

>could first unmacroexpand the source code
I wouldn't need that, but i'll change to my macros anytime there is code change.
The argument is that i'm using a compiler-based solution to a thing you write macros for.
My macros are more versatile, you can't just make a vim macro that computes a dozen defines and writes a final string.
vim macros are inferior to C preprocessor power.